Stuttering Therapy Outcomes Revisited

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Re: Uncertainty and Measurement Problem

From: Nan
Date: 01 Oct 2009
Time: 08:08:09 -0500
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Hi Tom, thanks for writing. I think uncertainty is an issue in any treatment or educational approach - we can never know how an individual will respond to any intervention, just past history of hopefully similar people and their typical outcomes. The issue of measurement is interesting, but I am not sure where you are taking it. Certainly, when someone comes in for therapy, they know they are being recorded to gauge behaviors of interest for remediation. I agree that when folks are only assessed immediately after discharge by their own therapists, you will probably get better looking outcomes than in a spontaneous, anonymous interaction, but some programs make surprise calls to clients, and I would think that this could work OK - certainly, the client's own report of whether or not post therapy speech and attitudes toward speaking have improved is the best data - in other fields, it is called patient satisfaction :-) Nan


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