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From: Walt Manning
Date: 14 Oct 2005
Time: 09:30:22 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.231
Hello Alan- As I understand your comments the London workshop was about how speakers successfully managed their stuttering over the years. Of course every story of success is quite different but we have found some common themes that help to explain eventual success. (See Plexico, L., Manning, W., & DiLollo, A. (2005). A phenomenological understanding of successful stuttering management, Journal of Fluency Disorders, 30 (1) 1-22. I believe there are common themes or principles of change that operate across a variety of therepautic approaches and are also present outside the formal therapeutic view of change. I suspect that change that is assisted by a truly competent and experienced clinician (another topic to be sure!)would be more effecient and effective but the same basic principles of successful management (of stuttering and other things) likely hold in any case.