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From: Howie Schwartz
Date: 05 Oct 2004
Time: 09:14:17 -0500
Remote Name: 131.156.120.110
The goal of the parents working with the child at home is to find an activity that the child enjoys doing so you can have the opportunity to reward his fluent speech. These sessions are not set up as speech sessions but rather play time with mom and dad. The parent has to work to find opportunities to reward fluent speech so the child will want to produce more fluent speech than stuttered speech. In addition, parents are encouraged to provide rewards throughout the day when the child is fluent. Corrrections are provided for stuttering but only at a rate of five positive comments to one correction. The speech language pathologist should be helping you to set up the program at home. Howie Schwartz