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From: J.L.
Date: 10/14/02
Time: 9:21:30 PM
Remote Name: 67.208.192.143
I am working with a 5 year old little boy who was referred to our clinic for stuttering about 2 years ago. He is currently doing very very well and is about 98%-100% fluent, depending on the day. Right now the focus of our therapy sessions is articulation and fluency maintenence. A home monitoring program has also been set up. My concern is, that this little boy is very good at monitoring himself in a clinic situation and has almost become conditioned to use slow and easy speech as soon as he enters the clinic, however his parents are still seeing more disfluency than they would like at home. Is there anything I can do or suggest to help this little boy get over the final hurdle towards fluency? Or, is it more likely that the parents are expecting 100% fluency all the time and are overly sensitive to normal disfluencies in their childs speech?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.