Treatment of chronic stuttering: outcomes from a student training clinic

Abstract

We conclude that a clinician-supervised student clinic has the potential to supply services for those with chronic stuttering, as well as providing effective clinical education for student clinicians during their professional preparation. The student clinic treatment model produced varied, objective speech data for more subjects than has ever been reported before in one study. The present findings also replicated a previous finding that stuttering was more severe within the clinic than in speech samples collected in everyday speaking environments.

The relationship between mental health disorders and treatment outcomes among adults who stutter

“…At four of the sites, treatment was conducted by speech-language pathology students under supervision, while treatment at the other sites was conducted by experienced speech-language pathologists. In four sites, a modified version of the Camperdown Program (O'Brian, Onslow, was conducted, whereas at the other sites the La Trobe Smooth Speech Program (Block et al, 2006;Block, Onslow, Packman, Gray, & Dacakis, 2005) was used.…”

Social anxiety and the severity and typography of stuttering in adolescents

“…It is possible that speech-related anxiety suppressed a true representation of stuttering surface features. Investigation of alternative approaches to obtaining representative measures of stuttering severity and typography, perhaps in more ecologically valid conversational contexts than the clinic and of greater syllable length, would also be of value to further examine potential relationships between psychosocial variables and stuttered speech (as suggested by Block, Onslow, Packman, Gray, & Dacakis, 2005). More detailed speech analyses of stuttering rates and/or other methods of evaluating severity are needed to explore the relationship between stuttering and anxiety more closely.…”

Comparisons of Audio and Audiovisual Measures of Stuttering Frequency and Severity in Preschool-Age Children

“…It is a simple procedure for participants or parents to audio record speech samples in these situations. Even more conveniently, recordings of naturalistic speech samples can be obtained over a telephone line (Block, Onslow, Packman, Gray, & Dacakis, 2005;Boberg & Kully, 1994). However, it is intuitive that audio-only assessments of stuttering may underestimate stuttering severity because observers do not have access to visual stuttering behaviors.…”