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From: Ken Logan
Date: 25 Oct 2010
Time: 08:57:02 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.50.31
Normally, I think, the main portion of the intervention program would consist of instructional and practice activities that are designed to improve a child's use of whatever fluency management techniques have been deemed appropriate (e.g., rate management skills). As we say in the article, the book-based activities would be only a part of that larger effort (in some cases, a small part). As we said, the book-activities can be particularly helpful at helping children come up with a plan to facilitate the "transfer/generalization" stage of therapy -- when the child attempts to change speech in real world situations, which are often quite a bit more challenging than the carefully controlled clinical situations (e.g., here's what the character in this situation and it didn't work well for him...how could he have handled it differently so that he might have had more success at managing his stuttering?)