title: [Fluency shaping with surface electromyography: a pilot study].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  the use of a technological resource in fluency promotion.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to verify the effectiveness of a stuttering treatment based on the use of surface electromyography (SEMG) exclusively.
  
  
  METHODS
  participants were four stuttering adults of both genders. Assessment, pre and post-treatment, consisted of a speech gathering session and the analyses of the rest tension and of the reaction time for speech. Treatment consisted of twelve twenty minute training sessions monitored by SEMG.
  
  
  RESULTS
  there was a statistically significant reduction in the number of stuttering-like disfluencies (p = 0.094) and in the number of other disfluencies (p = 0.014). The other parameters, as well as differences in the electromyographic measurements, did not present significant variation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SEMG proved to be effective in the reduction of stuttering, with no need of association to other techniques.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo. clauan@usp.br
authors.forename: Claudia Regina
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Furquim de Andrade
authors.forename: Fernanda Chiarion
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Sassi
authors.forename: Fabiola Staróbole
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Juste
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ercolin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome