School-age Stuttering Therapy: A burden, a challenge, or an opportunity?

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Team effort needed to help children who stutter

From: Gunars K. Neiders, Psy.D.
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 12:11:34 -0500
Remote Name: 98.247.240.81

Comments

Everything that I have heard from children and adults who have undergone therapy as children indicates to me that the success of therapy has been very limited. I would love to hear case studies where the child has reverted to spontaneous fluency or managed fluency and not have become a covert stutterer. Can you point me to some of these? Given the poor track record don't you think that it is time that these children be provided with care from a psychologist (or mental health professional) to help the child deal with the distress and other emotional factors including hopelessness and lack of motivation and a SLP to show them some speech techniques?


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