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From: Ann Packman
Date: 22 Oct 2005
Time: 19:07:57 -0500
Remote Name: 60.229.189.42
I agree with all that has been said and Larry Molt's overview is indeed comprehensive. Our group published a recent research report in Journal of Fluency Disorders, "Social anxiety in stuttering: Measuring negative social expectancies" (2004) pp. 201-212. The adults who stuttered scored higher than the nonstuttering group only on the measures of social anxiety. This means that they were no more anxious (as a group) on any of the measures of other types of anxiety. Of course, this was a group study and does not mean that every individual who stutters will be socially anxious. And people who do not stutter can be socially anxious too! We are also nearing the end of a large trial of cognitive behavior therapy for adults who stutter and the results are looking promising.