Relapse Following Successful Stuttering Therapy: The Problem of Choice

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Difficulty in transfer, self-talk patterns, possibility it is a life-long therapy process

From: Gunars K. Neiders, Psy.D.
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 18:04:46 -0500
Remote Name: 98.247.240.81

Comments

To many of the excellent hypotheses I would like to add what I have observed. In some cases all the easy work was done in stuttering therapy and none of the hard work. Fluency or relative fluency was obtained in the office setting and not in the real time world. A complete therapy needs to have a persons attitudes about himself or herself, the stuttering, and the world changed. This means changing the self-talk after a relative success or relative failure of a situation. Since therapy involves anxiety and LeDoux believes that the anxiety response is deeply seated in amygdala, it is possible that for some people life long desensitization may need to take place. But most of all, just like in cancer better preventative and treatment phases are still evolving. So we have to accept that we are still in relative infancy in evolving the complete stuttering therapy.


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