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From: Jim McClure
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 01:11:42 -0500
Remote Name: 71.228.102.188
The survey certainly validates that positive attitudes make a difference in the finding that support group participants tend to have more successful therapy outcomes. The survey included demographic questions on age, education and occupation, but demographics are not particularly relevant here. We surveyed the only group to which the NSA has access: people who are doing something about their stuttering by participating in the NSA or registering on our web site. So this group is not representative of the stuttering population nor the population as a whole. Survey respondents are more likely than the general population to be college graduates and in professional, technical and managerial occupations. It would have been interesting to survey people at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, but we did not access to those groups. (However, if people who are affluent and interested are getting ineffective therapy and bad advice, what can those less fortunate be experiencing?)