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From: Barry Guitar
Date: 10/9/02
Time: 6:52:13 AM
Remote Name: 65.19.67.168
I think Nancy's comments were right on. I will say that doing it distance makes it take a lot longer, in my experience. A youngster I worked with directly last year was basically fluent in about 3 months. I sure there's a lot of variablity, but the Lidcombe clinicians in Australia say that the average is 12 weeks (12 sessions between parent and SLP) to the 2nd stage (that's when the child is essentially fluent, but the parent continues to keep data and use contingencies as appropriate).
Of course, many "traditional" approaches can be this effective as well (in my experience) but there aren't a lot of data to demonstrate that.