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From: Robert Conard
Date: 21 Oct 2010
Time: 21:59:40 -0500
Remote Name: 98.215.55.87
Throughout my schooling, I have been taught that most children spontaneously grow out of their stuttering. My question is why an SLP would provide fluency therapy to a child? Wouldn’t bringing the stuttering out in the open and making them aware of it cause them to become more self-conscience of the stutter, making it become more automatic, therefore causing children to persist in stuttering past their youth? Have there been any studies done to see if there are fewer children who persist in stuttering who did not receive therapy versus children who persist that did receive therapy?