Elimination of Stuttering

This book describes a fluency management program which has been demonstrated to effectively treat fluency disorders in school-age children and adults who stutter. The purpose of the book is to describe treatment procedures speech-language clinicians can use with people who stutter to eliminate their stuttering behaviors and help them to maintain fluent speech following treatment. The procedures described utilize behavior shaping principals that have been designed specifically to...
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This book describes a fluency management program which has been demonstrated to effectively treat fluency disorders in school-age children and adults who stutter. The purpose of the book is to describe treatment procedures speech-language clinicians can use with people who stutter to eliminate their stuttering behaviors and help them to maintain fluent speech following treatment. The procedures described utilize behavior shaping principals that have been designed specifically to replace stuttering with typical speech fluency. The book provides a) a discussion of the rationale for the treatment program; b) a brief history of the development of the program; c) a summary of eight evidence-based clinical studies supporting the effectiveness of the treatment procedures; and d) comprehensive, in-depth descriptions of the specific treatment procedures used. The evidence supports the fact that close to 100% of clients treated were able to attain normally fluent speech production by the end of treatment and that close to 75% remained fluent in follow-up evaluations for from one to five years following treatment.