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Child and Adolescent Stuttering Treatment and Activity Resource Guide

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ISBN-10: 1401897193

ISBN-13: 9781401897192

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter R. Ramig, Darrell M. Dodge

List price: $160.95
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The Child and Adolescent Stuttering Treatment and Activity Resource Guide responds to the continuing demand from speech-language pathologists for specific, hands-on activities that can be used in the evaluation and treatment of fluency disorders (stuttering and cluttering) in children. The guide provides specific decision-making information to help clinicians choose the goals to address, and provides ideas on activities and strategies that can be used to meet these goals. An applied book about therapy, it is full of practical therapeutic ideas, substantiated by solid research information and explanations.
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Book details

List price: $160.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 2/14/2005
Binding: Comb Bound 
Pages: 368
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Peter Ramig is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he teaches and specializes in stuttering issues in children, teens, and adults. He is also a member, fellow, and board-recognized fluency specialist of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The majority of Dr. Ramig's professional writings and publications pertain to treatment and efficacy issues related to intervention with persons who stutter. As a working therapist and recognized authority on stuttering, he annually presents many workshops and seminars focused on specific treatment strategies for working with children, teens,…    

Darrell Dodge is a certified speech-language pathologist with a private practice in the Denver Metro area. He is an associate of Peter R. Ramig, Ph.D. and Associates at the Greenwood Speech Language Center, a specialty clinic focusing on the evaluation and treatment of children, teens, and adults who stutter. Mr. Dodge received his MA degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Colorado-Boulder and returned later as a lecturer teaching the graduate stuttering course. Voted National Stuttering Association Member of the Year in 1998, he has facilitated numerous adult stuttering support groups and has served as web developer for a website that explores the many aspects of…    

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
Strategies for Developing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
Working with Teachers
Basic Therapy Skills: Using Games and Other Activities in Therapy
Direct and Indirect Therapy for Preschool Children
Strategies for Teaching Normal Speech Production and Fluency-Enhancing Techniques
Strategies for Desensitization and Teaching Stuttered Speech Production
Strategies for Modifying Stuttered Speech
Transfer and Maintenance
Strategies for Cluttering Evaluation and Therapy
Explaining the Progress of Treatment and Recovery to Children and Parents
Parent and Other Caregiver Involvement
Teacher and Peer Education
Success in Working with Young 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 Contact and Movements
Facilitation of Oral-Motor Planning and Coordination
Desensitization Intervention
Reduction of Avoidance Behaviors
Modification of the Stuttering Moment
Facilitation of Development of Self-Awareness and Self-Monitoring Skills, as They Relate 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
Appendix: Reproducible Handouts in English and Spanish for Use in Clinical Practice
Index