Future Of stuttering

[jak]

I have come to beleive in the future that all of these theraphy programs and cures will be replaced by the use of drugs to treat stuttering ,I think drugs are the only real hope for us ,I think if SLPS and breathing methods have not cured us in the last 100 years they never will ,what do you think ?

[Adrian]

I have come to beleive in the future that all of these theraphy programs and cures will be replaced by the use of drugs to treat stuttering ,I think drugs are the only real hope for us ,I think if SLPS and breathing methods have not cured us in the last 100 years they never will ,what do you think ?


I think you are right. Medical/drug treatments are the future of stuttering treatment. I just hope they will happen in our lifetimes.

[Tom]

I am so against the use of drugs it's not funny. Drugs will never offer anything but temporary relief, and what will happen is that those on the drugs will become dependant of them. Plus drugs are NEVER a good thing for the body.

[Violet]

YEP! totally agree.

Has anyone ACTUALLY been 'cured' of stuttering before? Like you hear all those stories that 70% of people who went to said intensive training course did not stutter by the end of it. I bet you they relapsed. or just fooled the camera with word substitution and breathing.

I think that the levels of stuttering are:
Highly crazily severe - Stutter on EVERY SINGLE syllable so that you literally cannot talk.
Severe - not really situational. you stutter all of the time, but not every syllable... perhaps every couple of syllables :p
Moderate - less sounds that you stutter on. Situations bring it on ten times worse so that in those situations it becomes severe.
Mild - When you are in ideal situations you hardly stutter.. perhaps within a paragraph you would visibly stutter once and if you were really controlled none at all... most of the stutters you hide but you are still technically stuttering.. Bad situations make it appear moderate.. extra extra bad situations could possibly make it severe.
Fluent - YAY :D (and this isnt appearing to be fluent this is the real deal)

i think, and correct me if im wrong because really i have no idea :p , that speech therapy can bring a severe stutter to a moderate stutter. and a moderate stutter to a mild stutter. (and if a severe stutter successfully becomes moderate they can become mild) but i dont think they can do ANYTHING for mild stuttering. and because nothing really CURES them, which logically is the next step they are just in limbo and get worse and then improve and then get worse and then improve and then get worse and then improve etc etc. or if they are superman they can just remain a low mild through word substitution and not speaking all the time and being obsessive with their breathing so that they can pretend to be fluent when really they are not fluent like a fluent person is.

I'm really doubtful that ANYONE has been cured. Asif the king of fluency wasn't cured.. he even admitted that he still stuttered under stress.
To me a cure would be never having to think about breathing again and giving as much attention to speaking as regular people do. And your right, i don't believe that has EVER happened.

So i think all this breathing stuff can help relieve stuttering greatly but i can never cure it to the point where you never stutter.

Bring on the DRUGS!! :D

[peebee]

YEP! totally agree.

Has anyone ACTUALLY been 'cured' of stuttering before? Like you hear all those stories that 70% of people who went to said intensive training course did not stutter by the end of it. I bet you they relapsed. or just fooled the camera with word substitution and breathing.


Yes people have been cured of stuttering, a lot of them actually. It takes a ton of hard work and commitment but it is achievable. I know personally my stutter has improved a great deal over the years and I honestly think in 5 years i'll be fluent. I actually some some show that had a list of famous people that stuttered... some notable people who stuttered are sam jackson, bruce willis, joe biden, King Charles I, King George V?.... there must have been over 100 names and most of them I had previously heard of.

Also, often children are 'cured' of their stuttering at a young age because it's easier to do it then.

About the drugs... I use to be very very anti prescription drug for a long time, but the more research I did about prescription medications I realized as long as you don't abuse them (which you can do easily), prescription drugs are safe and in many cases necessary to function in everyday life. It's a shame that pagoclone won't be out for at least 2 yrs, it's the only drug that looks like it has promise.

[grantM]

I think in the future gene manipulation will be possible, this is of course once they find the cause(s) which will be very hard as we are all unique with our stuttering behaviours and origins etc. Drugs may be an option. But i hope that recovery techniques advance also.

Yes I think some people are cured and for some it disapears without warning as it may have originated without warning. I have met some very bad stutterers who speak very fluent and eloquent but their chosen recovery technique is always up front in their mind.

We are really beginning to understand stuttering more these days beyond just a simple speech problem. We are all "disabled" (I only use this word because modern literature does, I do not consider myself disabled) in at least 2 ways. 1 being the stutter itself and 2 most likely some form(s) of social phobias. Simply curing one will leave the other still intact and active. Also therapists are beginning to listen to stutterers, stutterers are listening to academics and academics are listening to both therapists and stutterers. They are all starting to understand the whole person and how stuttering effects them. So I think the future is rosey. We can also help by publicizing the issue and educating people instead of hiding away from it.

[emily445455]

I think stuttering cannot be 100% cured. Just what I think.

[Silent]

I believe stuttering can be cured. This belief gives a meaning to my existence and keeps me alive.

I don't need to be fluent, I just want back my ability to speak. If I can say what I want to in a reasonable time and without fear, pain and feeling like shit, that will be a cure for me.

[Silent]

I put hope in neurosurgery and nanorobotics.

If I knew for sure I would never be able to speak again in this life, I would move to the rainforest to live a stutter-free life among plants and animals :)