23 May 2016
Lidcombe Program Outcomes in a Student-Led Stuttering Clinic (Ep. 580)
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Dr. Michelle Swift joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her study “Case file audit of Lidcombe program outcomes in a student-led stuttering clinic.” This research is the focus of much conversation right now in the stuttering community.
While the study reports that student clinicians “can achieve the same short-term treatment outcomes for children who stutter using the Lidcombe Program as those reported in the current published literature,” the study also reports that a small majority of families dropped out of treatment and that, on average, student clinicians needed more sessions per family to achieve positive outcomes. Dr. Swift is asked if other treatments should be used at times instead of Lidcombe or integrated with Lidcombe. Dr. Swift suggests that one possible reason for the high drop out rates is that families sometimes have to switch student clinicians during treatment. At the end of today’s episode Dr. Swift is asked to consider the possibility that such research may lead some to question wether students are qualified to treat preschoolers who stutter with Lidcombe.
Michelle Swift, PhD, is a lecturer and clinical educator in fluency disorders for the Flinders University Speech Pathology program in Adelaide, South Australia. Dr. Swift is co-author of the new and much discussed study, Case file audit of Lidcombe program outcomes in a student-led stuttering clinic. The study is published in the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Related Links:
- Lidcombe Program
- Lidcombe Program Treatment Guide (Updated)
- StutterTalk episodes related to Lidcombe Treatment
- Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC)
- ASRC Downloads (lectures, guides, etc.)
- ASRC Publications
- Direct versus Indirect Treatment for Preschool Children who Stutter: The RESTART Randomized Trial
30 May 2016
A Call to Action: Moving Beyond ‘Stuttering is Okay’ (Ep. 581)
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Roisin McManus and Caryn Herring of the StutterTalk B Team join Peter Reitzes to discuss the huge success of the NYC stuttering conference The Past, The Present and Future of Stuttering. Today’s topics emanate from this workshop.
We discuss Barry Yeoman’s amazing keynote address including topics he raises such as the juncture of “we need a cure and we are the cure” and his hope that “stuttering awareness” becomes “part of workplace diversity training because we [people who stutter] put it there.” Other topics discussed include the language around stuttering such as “pathology”, moving beyond ‘stuttering is okay’ into activism for people who stutter, becoming aware of not participating in the stigmatizing of stuttering and so much more.
Caryn Herring is a person who stutters and a speech-language pathologist, currently pursuing her PhD at The University of Pittsburgh. Caryn is also an adjunct clinical instructor at Duquesne University, supervising graduate students and teaching the Stuttering Course. She is an active member of numerous stuttering organizations.
Roisin McManus lives in New York City and has co-led the Brooklyn Chapter of the National Stuttering Association for the past 5 years. She is an occasional StutterTalk host, lead planner of the 20-Something’s Program for the NSA/ISA World Congress in Atlanta this July, and doesn’t mind being referred to as a “stutterer.” She works as an emergency room nurse and recently graduated from New York University as an acute care & palliative care nurse practitioner.
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