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Stuttering therapy: the relation between attitude change and long-term outcome
The Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
|August 1, 1978
Summary
Attitude change after stuttering therapy is crucial for long-term fluency. Stutterers with normalized communication attitudes maintained fluency better one year post-therapy compared to those without.
Area of Science:
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Psychology of Communication
Background:
- Operant stuttering therapy often sees attitude change follow behavior change.
- Limited research exists on long-term outcomes for stutterers with unnormalized communication attitudes post-therapy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the long-term therapy outcomes of stutterers whose communication attitudes did not normalize after fluency establishment.
- To determine if unnormalized attitudes correlate with long-term stuttering severity.
Main Methods:
- Classified 20 stutterers into two groups based on post-therapy communication attitude scores.
- Compared long-term stuttering severity via follow-up interviews one year later.
Main Results:
- Stutterers whose post-transfer communication attitudes were not substantially normalized exhibited significantly more stuttering at follow-up.
- A notable correlation was found between unnormalized attitudes and increased long-term stuttering.
Conclusions:
- Normalization of communication attitudes is important for sustained fluency in stuttering therapy.
- Clinical interventions should address communication attitudes for improved long-term stuttering management.