Parents and Children Who Stutter: The pleasures and pains of working together

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Re: Question

From: Rosemarie
Date: 20 Oct 2010
Time: 05:18:04 -0500
Remote Name: 86.137.241.238

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Hi Angie, I don’t think there is a straight answer to your interesting question. From a learning point of view we want feedback to be contingent but we do not want children to feel embarrassed or humiliated in front of peers and siblings. Some children are very open towards parental help and do not seem to react emotionally to it whereas others can be very sensitive. Sometimes parents work out a secret code with their child so that they can give them contingent feedback in more public settings to help with the generalization of fluency skills in areas where this hasn’t happened automatically. One of the pleasures in working with four to five year olds is that often fluency seems to spread without us needing to focus on generalization- provided home treatment is progressing as described in the LP manual (ASRC website, SLP downloads). I assume this is because they have not developed the anticipation of stuttering that we see in older children and also a result of easier learning at this stage when brain plasticity is greater. Best wishes


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