Experiential Therapy for Adults Who Stutter

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Re: Question

From: Woody
Date: 10/8/03
Time: 4:55:39 PM
Remote Name: 216.240.100.159

Comments

Hi Patti.

Thanks for your comments.

I too am very cautious about recommending medication for people who stuttering. If there is a particular problem for which medication seems indicated, then, OK, carefully try it. I say "carefully" because sometimes, even though medication is indicated for the other problem, it may have unpredictable side effects for stuttering. But, as you say, if the medication is known to be effective for a specific problem, then, barring individual differences of a contrary nature, we can expect it will have the same desirable effect in the stutterer.

The problem is, however, that each individual client IS different, and what the client presents is always more important than the effectiveness of the medication on a test group of people, even a large group. Individual clinical facts always overrule group data.

Woody


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