Information
for parents
If your preschooler
is stuttering, we offer the following suggestions:
1. Seek
out a speech pathologist who has experience with early stuttering
and who has been trained in the Lidcombe Program. High quality standardised
training in the program has been available in many countries around
the world since 2003. For further information click on the link
to the Lidcombe Program Trainers
Consortium (LPTC).
2. The Lidcombe Program should be done according
to the manual. You can check this by downloading the Lidcombe
Program manual from this website. It is available in English
and other languages. The Lidcombe
Program brochure also provides an overview of the treatment.
At the moment the research team at the ASRC is developing other
ways of implementing the program (eg. via distance, in groups) and
further results will be available in the future.
3. Steady
improvement in stuttering, evident at home as well as in the clinic,
should be seen throughout Stage 1 of the program. Children vary
enormously in the time taken to complete Stage 1 of the program;
from a few weeks to around six months. If you have any questions
or concerns about your child’s progress through the program,
you should raise them with your speech pathologist. Speech pathologists
can contact Consortium members
for advice about the Lidcombe Program.
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