As shown in Table 6.1, there have been five reports of the efficacy of intensive speech restructuring with school-age children. Thus far, the most promising evidence for the efficacy of…
The PCI approach rests on the research interpretation that physiological and linguistic factors may be significant in the onset and development of stuttering and that their interaction with emotional and…
In terms of efficiency, the telehealth group required a mean of 10 hours 17 minutes contact time compared to the standard group mean of 12 hours 54 minutes. This difference…
With regard to self-report data, S-24 pre-treatment and 10-year follow-up data were available for 10 participants and SPQ data were obtained from 12 participants at 10 years follow-up. The pre-treatment…
Given the paucity of evidence to support the clinical effectiveness of the SSMP, a recent attempt was made to evaluate the SSMP on various treatment outcomes (Blomgren et al., 2005). Blomgren…
To demonstrate the adaptability of a student education clinical model, a modification of the Camperdown Program (O’Brian et al., 2003) (see Chapter 2) was designed to fit into that model at…
Second, in a positron emission tomography study, Ingham et al. (2003) found that a group of 17 participants who completed approximately half of the Establishment Phase exhibited normalised cerebral blood blow…
These findings highlight the need for many clients who stutter to use motor strategies to synergistically supplement or complement AAF. Initiation strategies such as vowel or voiced continuant elongation of…
Further support for the treatment comes from outcomes of Phase I and Phase II trials of the treatment adapted for telehealth delivery (Carey et al., 2010; O’Brian et al., 2008). Participants in…
Parents in both Koushik et al. (2009) and Lincoln et al. (1996) reported being satisfied with their children’s post-treatment speech. Koushik et al., interviewed parents of ten of the children about their satisfaction…
