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From: Mark Onslow
Date: 07 Oct 2007
Time: 20:54:53 -0500
Remote Name: 129.78.64.106
Hi Joan, The Demands and Capacities Model may be a source of future treatment development. However, in my view preliminary file audit data are not encouraging (Onslow & Yaruss, 2007). But I guess we will need some Phase I trial data to really know. There are also clinic based data suggesting that preschoolers might benefit from fluency shaping techniques (Kully & Boberg, 1991; Runyan & Runyan, 1986; Shine, 1984). I hope that clinical trials are done there with preschoolers. And our group is working on a preschool treatment based on syllable timed speech (Trajkovski et al., 2007). Regards, Mark. Kully, D., & Boberg, E. (1991). Therapy for school-age children. Seminars in Speech and Language, 12, 291-300. Runyan, C. M., & Runyan, S. E. (1986). A fluency rules therapy program for young children in the public schools. Language, Speech & Hearing Services in the Schools, 17, 276-284. Shine, R. E. (1984). Direct management of the beginning stutterer. In W. H. Perkins (Ed.), Current therapy of communication disorder: Stuttering disorders (pp. 57-75). New York: Thieme-Stratton. Onslow, M., & Yaruss, J. S. (2007). Differing perspectives on what to do with a stuttering preschooler and why. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16, 65-68. Trajkovski, N., Andrews, C., O’Brian, S., Onslow, M., & Packman, A. (2006). Treating stuttering in a preschool child with syllable timed speech: a case report. Behaviour Change.23, 270-277..