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Re: Spontaneous recovery

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 10/6/00
Time: 4:25:48 PM
Remote Name: 157.182.12.51

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Hi Gunars,

You described many of the reasons that people do get better as a result of therapy (and certainly you mention therapy in one of the possibilities). Occasionally these occur without therapy. But I think most of these factors never reach a conscious level of attention in what we typically regard as spontaneous recovery. In most such cases, the stuttering just goes away as mysteriously as it appeared. This happens often in young children and occasionally in adults. We had a college student here years ago who stuttered mildly all her life. She had some therapy, but never worked very hard at it or felt much need for it. After one Christmas break, she came back to school not stuttering anymore. I asked her what happened, and she had no idea. "It just went away."

That's what I was talking about more than therapy-induced recovery or self-therapy-induced recovery.

Ken


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