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From: Woody
Date: 10/12/00
Time: 7:27:51 AM
Remote Name: 155.247.229.113
There is a known relationship between prognosis and severity. IN an article Sheryl Gottwald and I published some years ago, we found a significant, but rather modest, correlation between severity and the speed of recovery in therapy. But, as Nan said, there are many different variables at play. IN our article, the largest correlation was between the amount of time between the onset of the disorder and the time needed for the therapy to remove it. Our main conclusion was of course that clinicians and parents should try to treat stuttering as soon as possible. We felt that the correlation between severity and the time needed to remove the problem with treatment was a derivative. That is, the longer the disorder went on untreated, the more severe it became. I hope this answers your question.