The Exploration Of The Curative Effect Of Sandplay To Adult Stutterers With Alleviating Social Anxiety

With the growing economy of society, social communication has become an integral part of modern life. For the stutterers, due to their speech disorders, it is difficult for them to communicate well with others and thus in turns cause social anxiety. Furthermore, social anxiety and stuttering form a vicious cycle that makes the stutters easy to avoid social activities or social context. Especially for the adult stutterer, social anxiety is the obstacle for their further study or promotion. So it is pertinent for us to pay attention to such a special group.Sandplay that is a non-language therapy.This study applied Sandplay in order to explore its curative effects to the adult stutterer in terms of alleviating their social anxiety. We selected24subjects from the adult stutterers who got high grades in social anxiety by pre-interview and questionnaire.12of them were control group, another12were the Sandplay Group,8of which divided into two Group Sandplay,4were Individual Sandplay. The hypothesis included the fellow:1. Sandplay therapy is effective in alleviating social anxiety of the adult stutterers.2. Individual and Group Sandplay therapy have no significant difference in alleviating social anxiety of the adult stutterers.After doing the Sandplay therapy, a significant lessening of the grades in the social anxiety has been found in Sandplay group. At the same time, self-assessment on the stutter grade, effects by stuttering on work/study, association, life and love have been lessened. Moreover, an enhanced self-acceptance in the shutterers after Sandplay therapy has been observed by post-interview.The result showed that Sandplay such a non-language therapy is effective in alleviating social anxiety of the adult stutterers. Either Individual Sandplay therapy or Group Sandplay therapy is effective. Furthermore, the self-acceptance in adult stutterers had enhanced after Sandplay therapy. To sum up, this study showed that Sandplay is an effective therapy in alleviating the adult stutters’social anxiety.