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Re: The Lidcombe Program

From: Nan Ratner
Date: 10/5/00
Time: 11:18:05 AM
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203

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As someone who has done some data analysis of Lidcombe with Onslow and his colleagues, I think it is important to understand that what the parents do in this program can be labeled differently by different people. While it is easy to see the program as operant, it is also easy to see the program as one that brings stuttering out into the open for family discussion and problem solving, as well as Rogerian, since many parents on the tapes I have seen appear to "reflect" what the child is saying when they provide feedback. An article we just published in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics also suggests that the positive reinforcement of the child's short and fluent utterances APPEARS to produce an effect of the child using more short, simple utterances in their speech, which can lead to increased fluency.

Nan


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