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From: Mark Bulger
Date: 10 Oct 2012
Time: 23:25:47 -0500
Remote Name: 71.126.224.85
My I suggest a different take on relapse? The object of therapy (in fact, if not always in the therapists' or client's mind) is not to correct a bad habit or learn a new way of speaking. The necessary object is to find a work-around for a neurological deficit in the brain. When considered in that light, is it any surprise that relapse occurs at high rates? You're asking the client to fight their own brain, every day, for the rest of their lives. No wonder so many weary of the effort, in spite of the obvious benefits of keeping it up. Speech is generated at a sub-conscious level, virtually effortlessly as far as the conscious mind is concerned. Stutter therapy asks the client to constantly interrupt the biologically natural speech generating mechanism with conscious, voluntary control. On the face of it, that's not a promising request.