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From: Jim McClure
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 13:52:07 -0500
Remote Name: 174.56.21.42
The conventional wisdom used to be that since most children who stutter outgrow it, parents were advised to delay treatment until the child was older. (That's what my parents were told in the 1950s, and I finally concluded I was not going to outgrow stuttering at age 28.) Now we know that early intervention can improve the odds that a child who stutters will develop into a fluent speaker, but many physicians and some SLPs have not kept up. Education will help. Malpractice litigation will help more.