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 -- Explaining the progress of treatment and recovery to children and parents -- Strategies for developing individualized education programs -- Working with teachers -- Basic stuttering therapy skills : therapy principles, activities, and evidence-based practice -- Direct and indirect therapy preschool children -- Strategies for teaching normal speech production and fluency-enhancing techniques -- Strategies for densitization and teaching the causes of stuttered speech production -- Strategies for modifying stuttered speech -- Transfer and maintenance -- Strategies for cluttering evaluation and therapy -- Stuttering and the brain: contemporary neuroimaging research -- In-the-ear SpeechEasy device and the influence of altered auditory feedback -- Parent and caregiver involvement -- Teacher and peer education -- Success in working with younger children -- Determining what is interfering with normal speech production -- Establishing fluency through increasingly longer and more complex stimuli -- Facilitating adequate breath support -- Controlling speaking rate -- Establishing light articulatory contacts and movements -- Facilitation of oral-motor planning and movement -- Desensitization intervention -- Reduction of avoidance behaviors -- Modification of the stuttering moment -- Facilitation of development of self-awareness and self-monitoring skills related to fluency -- Facilitation of a positive attitude toward communication and improved self-confidence in communicative competence -- Transfer and maintenance of fluency into everyday speaking situations -- Cluttering therapy.
Summary:
[Publisher-supplied data] The child and adolescent stuttering treatment and activity resource guide, 2nd edition is the only product of its kind. This book offers specific, hands-on activities that can be used in the evaluation and treatment of fluency disorders (stuttering and cluttering) as well as specific decision-making information that will help clinicians identify goals, and then develop effective and practical strategies to meet these goals. An applied book about therapy, The child and adolescent stuttering treatment and activity resource guide is full of easily-applied therapeutic ideas that are substantiated by solid research findings and thorough explanations.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.