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From: Ryan Pollard
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 14:25:44 -0500
Remote Name: 69.116.220.90
Katie, I’m glad you enjoyed the paper, and you ask a great question. There is research on relapse out there (e.g., Craig, JFD, 1998), but to answer your question within this forum, my short answer is no, there doesn’t seem to be a certain type that is more likely to relapse. There are, however, several factors that may make a particular person more likely to relapse. In my experience, these can include the following: external locus of control (believing that one’s decisions/successes/opportunities depend on outside forces that are beyond one’s control); continued avoidance of certain speaking situations, words, or sounds; strong feelings of failure or inadequacy when speech skills don’t work as well as expected in particular situations; unreasonable/unattainable expectations (e.g., being able to perfectly control stuttering in all situations); inability to constructively manage periodic episodes of stress or setbacks in one’s life in general and in one’s speech in particular; continuing to view stuttering as something to be cured/eliminated rather than something to be managed indefinitely.