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

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Re: Teaching the parents

From: Rosemarie
Date: 21 Oct 2010
Time: 15:58:41 -0500
Remote Name: 86.141.191.111

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Hi Jade, Thank you for your positive comments. When using the LP we tackle these two areas at the same time. I hope I can adequately explain the process. When parents first give feedback for stutter-free speaking they do so in conversations with the child where there is sufficient structure to ensure that the child speaks with only occasional stuttering. This is necessary to ensure that the parent has plenty of opportunities to praise or acknowledge stutter-free speaking. The SLP demonstrates this and also helps the parents work out ways that they can structure conversations (for a short while each day) at home. A few contingencies for stuttering can be introduced in these mainly stutter-free conversations and so the child has a go at fixing their bumpy words. As parents become more experienced with the LP they will often spontaneously introduce a bit more structure to a naturally occurring conversation when they hear their child stuttering more severely- they do this not only to reduce the stuttering but also so that they can provide contingencies for stutter-free speech. This means they are doing two things 1. Helping the child speak more fluently by taking some control of the speaking situation and 2. Provide feedback for smooth talking which further increases stutter-free speaking. This may also remind older children (4 to 5 years of age) that they can self-correct their stuttering. So parents learn a lot of useful skills with the LP, which they can use to help their child in subtly different ways. With best wishes


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