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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 16:40:24 -0500
Remote Name: 137.28.24.47
Good question - "how frequently... do clients experience a relapse into the old cluttering behaviour?" Bill, for example, tells me that he relapses when he "doesn't care to monitor like with family & friends," but he hasn't claimed to relapse across the board the way people who only stutter might. I really can't comment much further from my experience, because of the limited amount of therapy that people who clutter seek out and stick with. You also asked, "Did I observe a kind of automatisation of the new speaking style?" Yes, actually, Bill, the client who clutters and has had the most therapy (1 year several years ago), will go into an "automatic I'm talking to a speech therapist mode" and a "I'll slow way down when I present info to others" mode. He served as a particpant tin the study that Dr. Wolk and I presented at IFA, and I had to get him out of this autoamtic "good speech" mode in order to get him to show the features of cluttering yet again. St. Louis and Myers and others have reported that many individuals who clutter do need to focus on monitoring themselves closely for a long time to come, but often in the speaking situations in which they care to be fluent and/or intelligible.