Review of the Successful Stuttering Management Program
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…
Student-Delivered Treatment for Stuttering: Multiday Intensive Speech Restructuring
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…
Modifying Phonation Interval Stuttering Treatment Program
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…
Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering Using Altered Auditory Feedback
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…
The Camperdown Program
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…
Lidcombe Program with School-Age Children
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…
The Lidcombe Program
Advantages and disadvantages Advantages In relation to other early stuttering interventions, the evidence base for the LP is generally acknowledged as strong, and with more evidence to support its use…
Hydatidosis of the Spine
Fig. 9.1 Cyst removed from a vertebral body Fig. 9.2 Large open cyst with multiple daughter vesicles inside The clear, yellow hydatid fluid contains sodium chloride, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides, and…
Unusual Presentations of Hydatidosis of the Central Nervous System
Fig. 21.1 The vascular dissemination of hydatidosis Calvarium Hydatid disease in the calvarium is usually the rarest in the CNS. Anatomically, the bones of the calvarium, which has a protective…
Surgical Treatment of Spinal Hydatidosis
Fig. 14.1 Posteriorly located intradural extramedullary hydatid cyst can be seen on sagittal T1-weighted MRI. The cyst was compressing the spinal cord from the posterior aspect at the T7–8 level…
