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From: Sarah Smits-Bandstra
Date: 07 Oct 2011
Time: 17:14:06 -0500
Remote Name: 24.56.146.63
I don't think this research has direct implications for therapy just yet. But, if down the road, we see that people who stutter have impairments in implicit learning but excellent explicit learning this will definately change therapy. Therapy will be shorter to learn fluency shaping techniques and there will be less drill, repetitive practice. Instead there will be more conscious self-monitoring, and explicit directions and cueing. Also, there will be less guilt/expectation for these skills to because automatic and easy to use. I think right now some clinicians think that the skills aren't performed perfectly because the client isn't practicing enough, when insteadm it is because no amount of practice is going to improve the skills beyond a certain point because that long-term automatization system is not working perfectly for people who stutter. But like I said, we don't know any of this for sure yet.