Craig Coleman joins Peter Reitzes to answer the question Is there a best stuttering treatment?
During today’s episode, Mr. Coleman is asked about a number of comments made about stuttering by Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist, on her podcast and on a video. Topics include:
Is there a best stuttering treatment?
Is there such a thing as typical or normal stuttering?
Does everybody stutter?
Does the American Speech-Language Hearing Association support and back specific stuttering treatments?
Can parents respond to stuttering in ways that “will make sure…that stuttering does not become a bigger problem for your child”?
CRAIG COLEMAN, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-F is an assistant professor at Marshall University and a Board-Certified Specialist in fluency Disorders. Mr. Coleman is currently serving as coordinator of ASHA SIG 4 (Fluency) and as a member of the ASHA ad-hoc committee to revise the scope of practice in speech-language pathology. Craig is an adjunct instructor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Stuttering U. summer program for children who stutter, their families, and SLPs.
Effectiveness of Interventions for Preschool Children with Fluency Disorders: A Comparison of Direct Versus Indirect Treatments (article) from the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, by Frymark, Venediktov & Wang (2010)
Dr. Marie-Christine Franken joins Peter Reitzes to answer listener questions about preschool stuttering and its treatment. Dr. Franken discusses Lidcombe Treatment, Demands and Capacities Treatment (DCM) and much more.
Dr. Marie-Christine Franken is a Specialist Fluency Therapist and the Speech-Language Research Lead at the Speech & Hearing Department of Erasmus University MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Dr. Franken and her team of researchers published a much discussed 2005 pilot study which compared Lidcombe Treatment and DCM Treatment. In 2015 Dr. Franken is expected to publish a follow-up study, with almost 200 subjects, comparing these treatments.
StutterTalk has discussed preschool stuttering and research a number of times. Those conversations are archived here.
Ellen M. Kelly, Craig Coleman and Sheena Reilly join Peter Reitzes to discuss a current study on preschool stuttering out of Australia by Reilly and colleagues which has gathered a lot of media attention and has triggered some significant concerns in the field of speech-langauge pathology. The study, in the journal Pediatrics, is titled Natural History of Stuttering to 4 Years of Age: A Prospective Community-Based Study. The controversy or concerns have arisen, in part, because the study promotes a general policy of wait and see with preschoolers who stutter before beginning treatment. Some, including two of today’s guests, express concerns about the specific measures used in the study and the possible “over-interpretation” of the study’s findings. Guests are asked about the study itself, the response from the mainstream media and several critical press releases by the Stuttering Foundation.
ELLEN M. KELLY, PhD, CCC-SLP specializes in fluency disorders, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a Speech-Language Pathologist at the Bill Wilkerson Center also at Vanderbilt.
CRAIG COLEMAN, MA, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD is an assistant professor at Marshall University and a Board-Recognized Specialist in fluency Disorders. Craig is currently serving his second term as President of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association and also serves on the Scientific and Professional Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Craig is an adjunct instructor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Duquesne University.
SHEENA REILLY is Director of Speech Pathology, RCH and Professor of Speech Pathology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Dr. Reilly holds a National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) practitioner fellowship and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. Sheena is a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and of Speech Pathology Australia.
Today’s episode is in three segments. In the first segment Dr. Walter Manning joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his recently published research, with J. Gayle Beck, on personality dysfunction in adults who stutter. In the second segment, Dr. Ross. G. Menzies, from the Iverach research group in Australia, joins the conversation to respond.
In the third segment, Dr. Manning joins StutterTalk from Scottsdale, Arizona where he is attending the National Stuttering Association’s Research Symposium and 30th Annual Conference. Dr. Manning reports on a much-anticipated presentation he attended today on research in preschool stuttering treatment. The presentation Dr. Manning discusses on air is titled Comparing a Demands and Capacities Model approach and the Lidcombe Program for pre-school stuttering children: the RESTART randomized trial. The presenter was Marie-Christine Franken, Ph.D., from Sophia Children’s Hospital, The Netherlands.
WALTER MANNING, Ph.D., is a professor and Associate Dean in the School of Communication Sciences at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, a fellow of American Speech-Language Hearing Association, has published more than 100 articles in a variety of professional journals and since 1997 has been an associate editor for the Journal of Fluency Disorders. The third edition of Dr. Manning’s textbook Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders was published in 2010.
ROSS G. MENZIES, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, Associate Professor at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre and also the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Sydney and has recently been appointed Convenor and President of the 8th World Congress of Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy to be held in Australia in 2016.
Iverach, L., Menzies, R. G., O’Brian, S., Packman, A., & Onslow, M. (2011). Anxiety and stuttering: Continuing to explore a complex relationship. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20, 221–232.
Iverach, L., Menzies, R., O’Brian, S., Packman, A., Onslow, M., Jones, M. (2011). Response to Walter Manning and J. Gayle Beck: Comments concerning Iverach, Jones et al. (2009). Journal of Fluency Disorders, 36, 66-71.
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.
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10 Feb 2015
Is There a Best Stuttering Treatment? (Ep. 494)
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Craig Coleman joins Peter Reitzes to answer the question Is there a best stuttering treatment?
During today’s episode, Mr. Coleman is asked about a number of comments made about stuttering by Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist, on her podcast and on a video. Topics include:
CRAIG COLEMAN, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-F is an assistant professor at Marshall University and a Board-Certified Specialist in fluency Disorders. Mr. Coleman is currently serving as coordinator of ASHA SIG 4 (Fluency) and as a member of the ASHA ad-hoc committee to revise the scope of practice in speech-language pathology. Craig is an adjunct instructor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Stuttering U. summer program for children who stutter, their families, and SLPs.
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