옥정달님께서 질문하신 내용입니다.
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아래 글은 말더듬이란 현상을 이해하는 아주 기초적인 용어의
개념입니다. 제가 원서를 보다가 너무나 내용이 좋아서 올립
니다. 처음에는 해석해서 올릴려고 하다가 그동안 저의 글에
대해서 저의 개인적인 견해로 오해하는 사람들이 있어, 원문을
그대로 옮김니다. 상세한 해설이 필요하신 분은 저에게 메일로
보내주시면 기꺼이 해설를 보내드리겠습니다.

핵심 요지는 말더듬은 치료(cure)는 될 수 없지만,
성공적으로 치료(treatment)될 수 있다는 내용입니다.
또 통제(control)가 왜 필요한지에 대해서도 언급되어 있습니다.

출처: Lloyd M. Hulit, Ph.D.,(1996), Straight Talk on
Stuttering, Charles C Thomas Publisher. p137.

The first issue we must address in considering the
treatment of adult stutterers is the meaning of the word,
"cure", as it relates to stuttering. As it is commonly used
and understood, "cure"is an absolute term. To say that
a problem, disorders, or disease is cured means that it no
longer exists, that its symptoms have been permanently
removed. If this is what we mean by "cure" in reference to
the prospects for the adult stutterer in treatment, we must
conclude that cures are very, very rare. We need to keep
in mind that stuttering is a disorder characterized by
inappropriate behaviors. It is no more appropriate to talk
about curing stuttering than it is to talk about curing
someone of being rude or curing someone of being moody.
We may shape behaviors. We may control behaviors, but the
concept underlying "cure"does not fit the treatment of
disordered behaviors.

It is more appropriate to talk about the successful
treatment of stuttering than to talk about cures. Can
adult stutterers be successfully treated? Yes, they can.
Some stutterers are so successfully treated, in fact, that
most people will not know that they have fluency problems.
That is, they have learned to control their nonfluencies
well enough and to make the physiological adjustments
necessary for facilitating fluency subtly enough that their
speech appears to be normally fluent. -이하생략-



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