I recommend you add more context to your question. The article is fantastic and boils down to the idea that being cured from stuttering is different depending on the person. “When we focus on stuttering vs. not stuttering or cured vs. not cured, we are missing the point of a PERSON and being a person with functional communication. Functional communication implies degrees of self-expression with perhaps different levels or forms of stuttering or fluency. The “cure” of stuttering may be the idea of communicating a thought, feeling, experience, or desire from one individual to another, as efficiently and effectively as possible, however that is defined for that individual. For some, curing stuttering may be entering uncomfortable situations and verbally expressing oneself regardless of the level of stuttering or fluency. For others, it may be having the confidence to express an idea to influence decision making in a group. Maybe it is making a joke or quip in a social context. Consistently saying what one intends to say, speaking with less struggle (not necessarily the absence of struggle), and/or have a sense of full being, intactness, and total communicative self-reliance are all markers of “curing stuttering.” Thus, curing stuttering becomes an individualized definition and process.”