Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index.
Contents:
Helping parents learn about stuttering in children: information for clinicians, students, and parents -- Strategies for counseling parents of children who stutter -- Strategies for assessment of fluency disorders -- Strategies for developing individualized education programs (IEPS) -- Working with teachers -- Basic therapy skills: using games and other activities in therapy -- Direct and indirect therapy for preschool children -- Strategies for teaching normal speech production and fluency-enhancing techniques -- Strategies for desensitization and teaching stuttered speech production -- Strategies for modifying stuttered speech -- Transfer and maintenance -- Strategies for cluttering evaluation and therapy --Explaining the progress of treatment and recovery to children and parents -- Goal 1: Parent and other caregiver involvement -- Goal 2: Teacher and peer education -- Goal 3: Success in working with young children -- Goal 4: Determining what is interfering with normal speech production -- Goal 5: Establishing fluency through increasingly longer and more complex stimuli -- Goal 6: Facilitating adequate breath support --Goal 7: Controlling speaking rate -- Goal 8: Establishing light articulatory contact and movements -- Goal 9: Facilitation of oral-motor planning and coordination -- Goal 10: Desensitization intervention -- Goal 11: Reduction of avoidance behaviors -- Goal 12: Modification of the stuttering moment -- Goal 13: Facilitation of development of self-awareness and self-monitoring skills, as they relate to fluency -- Goal 14: Facilitation of a positive attitude toward communication and improved self-confidence in communicative competence -- Goal 15: Transfer and maintenance of fluency into everyday speaking situations -- Goal 16: Cluttering therapy -- Reproducible handouts in English and Spanish for use in clinical practice.
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