SHS 170 Lecture 18: Fluency Disorder Treatments

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Speech and Hearing Science
• Course: SHS 170
• Professor: Mudar

Document Summary

For children just beginning to stutter; mild. Light articulatory contacts and gentle voicing onsets. Lengthens naturally occurring pauses and adds pauses. Gradual increase in length and complexity of utterance program. Summary of van riper"s approach to stuttering modification therapy. Prepare the client emotionally and mentally to undergo therapy. Help the client understand and explain exactly what they do and how they feel when he stutters. Reduce the client"s fears, frustrations, and embarrassment about his stuttering. Teach the client to change their stuttering patterns. Teach the client new responses that reduce the stuttering. Help the client become their own clinician. How to interact with a person who stutters.