StutterTalk.com: Talking about Stuttering: An Evidence Based Discussion of the Lidcombe Treatment Program for Preschoolers Who Stutter with Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner (Episode 246)

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An Evidence Based Discussion of the Lidcombe Treatment Program for Preschoolers Who Stutter with Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner (Episode 246)

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Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D., CCC-SLP joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the Lidcombe Program to treat preschoolers who stutter.

		NAN BERNSTEIN RATNER is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Ratner is the editor of numerous volumes, and author of numerous chapters and articles addressing language acquisition and fluency in children. Dr. Ratner is an ASHA fellow, was a member of the original cadre of Board Recognized Fluency Specialists, and received the 2006 Distinguished Research Award from the International Fluency Association. Dr. Ratner is co-author with Oliver Bloodstein of A Handbook on Stuttering (6th edition) – one of the most respected and cited stuttering texts of our time.

Dr. Ratner has written two seminal articles on Evidence Based Practice which guide many of the questions and topics raised during today's episode. The abstracts of the two articles are:

Evidence-Based Practice in Stuttering: Some Questions to Consider (2005)

Evidence-Based Practice: An Examination of Its Ramifications for the Practice of Speech-Language Pathology (2006)

Click here to view many of Dr. Ratner's scholarly articles. Listeners may contact Dr. Ratner to request specific articles she has written at nratner@hesp.umd.edu.

Click here to view a list of Lidcombe Program publications in peer reviewed journals. During today's episode we discussed these two studies on Lidcombe treatment for preschoolers who stutter:

[full article available] Jones, M., Onslow, M., Packman, A., Williams, S., Ormond, T., Schwarz, T., and Gebski, V. (2005). Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe Programme of early stuttering intervention . British Medical Journal, 331, (7518), 659–661.

[abstract] Jones, M., Onslow, M., Packman, A., O'Brian, S., Hearne, A., Williams, S., Ormond, T., and Schwarz, I. (2008). Extended follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 43, 649-661.

Listeners are encouraged to review Dr. Tom Weidig's posts on Lidcombe over at the Stuttering Brain blog. This post and this post are two of the many posts by Dr. Weidig that are insightful and helped guide some of the questions in today's episode.

Listeners are also encouraged to review the following Stuttering101 episodes to learn more about the Lidcombe Program, the Demands and Capacities Treatment Model and early childhood stuttering.