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From: Ken Logan
Date: 19 Oct 2012
Time: 07:09:59 -0500
Remote Name: 98.70.58.10
I'll just add one more reason that people "choose to enroll" in therapy. I have worked with many college-aged people who stutter over the years. For many of these folks, the primary motivator for pursuing speech therapy has been the concern that prospective employers may react to the their stuttering negatively. So, in many of these cases, it isn't that the person who stutters is particularly dissatisfied with his or her speech (though there is probably some of that)...it is more the person's concern that others (especially prospective employers) may react negatively to it that drives the interest in therapy. Sadly, research supports the validity of this concern to some degree.