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From: Rosemarie
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 16:37:51 -0500
Remote Name: 86.129.241.142
Hi Suzanne I apologize for my late response but unexpected family events have kept me away from my computer for a few days. I’m glad you enjoyed the article. I can’t quote specific research on self-correction versus being corrected by another but the benefits for the child who stutters are clear. Firstly, if the child can self-correct then when they feel their stuttering coming on they know what to do in order to retain their fluency or what to do to make their stuttering less severe. So they can independently monitor their speaking and use appropriate self-repair strategies- which is what we all do in our everyday talking. Being reliant upon others to tell us whether or not our speaking is okay is clearly not functional. So we’re aiming for the children to be able to use the same monitoring and self-correction processes that other children use. The Australian Stuttering Research Centre website has details of LP trainers around the world. As far as your last question goes I have been using the LP for a long time now and so have not used other direct approaches with this age group. What attracted me to the LP in the first place was that we are providing a space or an opportunity for children to find the best ways of speaking smoothly, that is, the best ways of them. Imposing changes in speaking on young children always seemed inappropriate to me. For example, slowing down, gentle onset, relaxed bouncing or the other techniques that are used to modify stuttering, these are hard things for young children to learn to do. I hope have answered your questions. Best wishes.