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From: Ken Logan
Date: 17 Oct 2010
Time: 21:21:05 -0500
Remote Name: 98.70.58.69
Hi Jen. Thanks for your comments. There is no inherent link between the use of the books and particular fluency management strategies. The latter is a broad topic, and I don't really have time or space to address it in depth, but in general terms, you'd want to pick a fluency management strategies that (a) are based upon evidence based principles, and (b) are well suited to addressing the child's primary symptoms. As we noted in our article, the books can also be used to address attitudes, feelings, beliefs, background stuttering knowledge, and so forth. SLPs commonly use cognitive behavioral principles to address affective issues with people who stutter, so if such an approach were used, the book-based activities would be designed in such a way as to be consistent with those principles.