Relapse Following Successful Stuttering Therapy: The Problem of Choice

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From: Dick Mallard
Date: 05 Oct 2012
Time: 10:16:13 -0500
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Ryan, thank you for a nice article. I have considerable experience in administering fluency shaping and stuttering modification approaches in therapy for stuttering. Many people come to therapy for the clinician to take care of the problem--fix it, in other words. When clients find out just how difficult it is to change a long-standing engrained behavior and it cannot be "fixed" by someone else, they quit trying. This is why I believe strongly that therapy should not be initiated until the client can demonstrate readiness for change and hard work. Just because people have a problem does not mean they are ready to "do what it takes" to solve the problem.


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