Max Is a 13-Year-Old Boy Who Stutters

Max is a 13-year-old boy who stutters. He is participating in speech therapy. His goal in therapy is to develop deliberately fluent speech. Which of the following statements best describes his goal?

A) Max wants to develop speech that is indistinguishable from the speech of children his age who have never stuttered
B) Max wants to learn strategies to reduce (but probably not eliminate) disfluencies in his speech.
C) Max wants to learn cognitive coping strategies to help him deal with anxiety associated with stuttering.
D) Max knows that with considerable effort and practice, he will be able to overcome his stuttering.