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From: Rosalee Shenker
Date: 19 Oct 2005
Time: 05:18:52 -0500
Remote Name: 65.94.169.159
It is difficult for me to answer your question fully since I am not sure what age child you are talking about. A general response would be if the loci of the stuttering is imbedding in a very long utterance then you have to help the child to be able to change something about the utterance to increase stutter free speech. I would probably interupt to take shorter turns and change the nature of the interaction to a dialogue. In this way I would be able to convey the message to the child that I am listening. Depending on the age of the child a reward chart could work for a short time. I have had no experience with older chidren with word final disfluencies but have had feedback from others who have used verbal feedback with success.