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Assessing Stuttering Treatment Without Assessing Stuttering? A Response to Reitzes and Snyder (2006)

Ray M. Merrill
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Contact author: Michael Blomgren, 390 South 1530 East, Room 1201, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0252. E-mail: michael.blomgren{at}health.utah.edu.

PURPOSE: This letter is a response to P. Reitzes and G. Snyder's (2006) letter to the editor regarding "Intensive Stuttering Modification Therapy: A Multidimensional Assessment of Treatment Outcomes," by M. Blomgren, N. Roy, T. Callister, and R. Merrill (2005). The focus of this letter is on issues related to (a) intended and unintended outcomes of stuttering modification treatment, (b) the rationale underlying specific stuttering treatment outcomes measures, and (c) "truth in advertising" of stuttering treatment programs. A secondary purpose is to provide a primer on vocabulary use in treatment research.

KEY WORDS: stuttering, efficacy, stuttering modification, outcomes, treatment

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