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Re: Stuttering & Cluttering

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 08:24:51 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31

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Tina, After about 50 years of being ignored, cluttering is again being considered in undergraduate and graduate courses in fluency disorders. You ask the kind of question that could take hours to answer adequately. Maybe you should do an undergraduate capstone paper on the question you posed. <smile> A quick and oversimplified answer is the it depends on all sorts of variables: severity, age, other coexisting disorders (e.g., if stuttering and cluttering occur in the same person), type of therapy, and so on. In general it is widely assumed that cluttering is hard to treat, but honestly, I don't think it is any harder to treat than stuttering. It's just different. Hope this helps. Ken


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