Treatment of School Age Children with the Lidcombe Program

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Re: Does Lidcombe Work?

From: Ora McCreary
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 12:59:46 -0500
Remote Name: 64.95.16.243

Comments

Rosalee, I'm a little confused. You've written: "at this time it is not possible to know in advance whether an individual child will recover spontaneously". But you've also written "Children who have not been stuttering for long and have a low risk for persistent stuttering are placed on a monitoring program after assessment". How do you assess whether a child is at low risk for persistent stuttering? We know that *most* children are at a very low risk for persistent stuttering. Even those who begin to stutter have only a 20% risk of persistent stuttering (because of the 80% natural recovery rate). When a child presents with stuttering, how do you determine whether to treat the child or to put him/her on a monitoring program? One risk factor, of course, is stuttering in the family. But beyond this one risk factor, are there other risk factors in children which predispose toward persistent stuttering? How do you decide which children to treat and which to not treat but monitor?


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