The
Lidcombe Program
Who
uses it?
The Lidcombe
Program was developed in Australia and is now used by more than
80% of speech pathologists in Australia who treat children who stutter.
The specialist clinicians at the Stuttering Unit in Sydney use it
with all preschool children who stutter. The first report of the
treatment was published in 1990 and this was followed by regular
reports in scientific and professional journals, books, and at speech-language
pathology conferences. The Lidcombe Program is now widely used in
Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. There is also considerable
interest in South Africa, the United States, and several non-English
speaking countries. The manual has been translated into five languages,
and these translations can be downloaded from this website. There
is an international Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium, with members
in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia.
You can read about this consortium in the October 2003 edition of
the ASRC Newsletter, which is available at our downloads
page.
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