Stuttering Research Paper
November 30, 2010
Research Paper
Familial Support and Treatment for Stuttering Children
Stuttering is a speech disorder where the fluency of speech is disrupted by repetition, pauses or prolongations of words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (2010), stuttering affects individuals of all ages but occurs most frequently in young children between the ages of 2 and 6 who are developing language. This is a common stage in young children’s lives often referred to as normal dysfluency or psuedostuttering. Some children will have spontaneous recovery from stuttering, in which they recover without treatment, and some children will greatly need treatment intervention. Because there is no way to detect children who will recover without assistance and those who will not, the appropriate …show more content…
Stage 1 is conducted when the child’s stuttering is at its peak. During stage 1, the Lidcombe program teaches parents to give direct, effective feedback to his or her child’s speech and teaches them how to measure their child’s stuttering each day on a 1-10 scale; 1 being the least amount of stuttering. The parents’ feedback is significantly positive and limited to an extent. The parent comments mainly when the child speaks without stuttering and only occasionally when the child stutters. The parent does not comment on the child's speech all the time. Instead, they choose specific times during the day in which to give the child feedback. For the duration of stage 1, the child and the parent visit the clinic once a week but the parent conducts the treatment every day. Stage 1 ends and Stage two begins when stuttering disappears or is very low. Stage 2 is conducted to maintain the progress made in step 1 and is intended to keep stuttering away for up to one year. During stage 2, the parent and child’s visit to the speech clinic is condensed (Australian Stuttering Research Centre,
Research Paper
Familial Support and Treatment for Stuttering Children
Stuttering is a speech disorder where the fluency of speech is disrupted by repetition, pauses or prolongations of words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (2010), stuttering affects individuals of all ages but occurs most frequently in young children between the ages of 2 and 6 who are developing language. This is a common stage in young children’s lives often referred to as normal dysfluency or psuedostuttering. Some children will have spontaneous recovery from stuttering, in which they recover without treatment, and some children will greatly need treatment intervention. Because there is no way to detect children who will recover without assistance and those who will not, the appropriate …show more content…
Stage 1 is conducted when the child’s stuttering is at its peak. During stage 1, the Lidcombe program teaches parents to give direct, effective feedback to his or her child’s speech and teaches them how to measure their child’s stuttering each day on a 1-10 scale; 1 being the least amount of stuttering. The parents’ feedback is significantly positive and limited to an extent. The parent comments mainly when the child speaks without stuttering and only occasionally when the child stutters. The parent does not comment on the child's speech all the time. Instead, they choose specific times during the day in which to give the child feedback. For the duration of stage 1, the child and the parent visit the clinic once a week but the parent conducts the treatment every day. Stage 1 ends and Stage two begins when stuttering disappears or is very low. Stage 2 is conducted to maintain the progress made in step 1 and is intended to keep stuttering away for up to one year. During stage 2, the parent and child’s visit to the speech clinic is condensed (Australian Stuttering Research Centre,