ABSTRACT
Once a stutter has persisted into adulthood, total recovery with or without therapy is very unlikely. For some, negative attitudes to speech and speechrelated activity will have continued to build, particularly if earlier therapy has not been successful. Many of the issues that will have been of concern to the teenager will remain, but now new issues specific to adult life will have been added. Finding employment involves the often dreaded job interview. When a position has been found, posts which require a lot of talking place increasing pressures (or “demands” as they would be viewed in the Demands and Capacities model, chapter 1) on the individual.
