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From: Mark Onslow
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 23:16:44 -0500
Remote Name: 24.197.196.252
Hi Meagan, Our experience is that once preschoolers get better from stuttering they forget all about it. With the trials we have done we have met up with many school age children who we treated for stuttering when they were preschoolers, and they only have a dim recollection of why they came to see us. There is not a large cohort of children who do not respond to the treatment (for example, have a look at Jones et al. 2000) so we really have no feel for when it will happen, apart from the obvious things that occur in a clinic that a family relocates or loses contact because of childhood illness. Regards, Mark. Jones, M., Onslow, M., Harrison, E., & Packman, A. (2000). Treating stuttering in young children: Predicting treatment time in the Lidcombe Program. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 1440-1450.