Career
Daly was a moderately severe stutterer who went to school for speech therapy. After gaining improved fluency from a competent therapist he decided to devote his career to helping others who stuttered. He performed considerable research in both cluttering and stuttering, and is known for his work with making cluttering diagnosis available and accessible to speech-language pathologists.
"The Predictive Cluttering Index" (Payment Card Industry) is a worksheet that is used as a diagnosis tool for cluttering.
lieutenant was first published in 1992, in his book lieutenant was revised in 1999 for an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference. The last revision, renamed the Payment Card Industry, was in 2006.
Daly obtained his doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology from Pennsylvania State University and instructed at the Medical School campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham for five years. He was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1973 until he was given emeritus status by the University of Michigan in 1999.
He was director of the speech clinic and the aphasia clinic.
Daly is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.