Using fictional literature as a tool in fluency intervention programs for children and teens

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Re: Using fictional literature as in intervention tool

From: Ken Logan
Date: 17 Oct 2010
Time: 13:19:56 -0500
Remote Name: 98.70.58.69

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Hi Selena, Thanks for your comments about the paper. You raise good questions. Children's attitudes and feelings toward stuttering can show quite different trajectories; that is, it differs from case to case. For example, I'm currently using children's literature with a client who in the carryover phase of therapy. The child has a reasonably good outlook about stuttering, but we are using the books to dissect particular speaking situations that the characters face. These provide good context for then branching into the situations that the child faces. We've read two books thus far. I'm not sure if we'll read more than that in the future. (time will tell.) But the activities have provided for several instances of "well, the character in the book did, but I don't usually do that...I do ___." I think such as language is encouraging to hear, because it shows that the client is developing increased sophistication with analyzing stuttering objectively.


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