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From: tim saltuklaroglu
Date: 10/7/00
Time: 3:15:34 PM
Remote Name: 150.216.147.129
Anna,
Spontaneous recovery usually occurs in about 4 out of 5 children who pass through a disfluent phase of their childhood. Once spontaneous recovery has occurred, the speech of these children is usually fluent and indistinguishable from that of non-stuttering children. The chances of spontaneous recovery decrease with age. If a child is still stuttering into his teenage years, there is good chance that he will continue to stutter. Todays therapeutic procedures may help control the stuttering and make speech more functional, but controlled speech is difficult to maintain, often unnatural and prone to relapse. It is definitely not a cure. At East Carolina University we are investigating other ways of producing fluent, natural sounding speech in people who stutter. For more information please refer to www.ecu.edu/csd.sutt
best wishes tim