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The purpose of this study was to determine if a group therapy was effective on the fluency and attitudes of stuttering in adult stutterers. The subjects of the study were 6 developmental stutterers. The group therapy was consist of linguistic area and psycho-attitude area. Each area was composed of ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if a group therapy was effective on the fluency and attitudes of stuttering in adult stutterers. The subjects of the study were 6 developmental stutterers. The group therapy was consist of linguistic area and psycho-attitude area. Each area was composed of 5 steps. The therapy was delivered 48 times for 20 weeks. This study was a pre-post design. The results of the study were as follows: Results showed that after group therapy there was a marked improvement in both speech measures and in attitude scales. First, after group therapy, the percent of stuttered words decreased and the speech rates increased in reading, spontaneous speaking, and conversation for most subjects. Second, after group therapy, the results showed improvement in communication attitudes, locus of behavior control, perceptions of stuttering, and self-efficacy in the most subjects.

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