A Mother's Experience with Lidcombe Treatment for Stuttering (282)
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Aixa Kalhan joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her experiences using Lidcombe Treatment with her son (a 4 and a half year old preschooler who stutters) via telehealth with a qualified speech pathologist in another country.|
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AIXA KALHAN is a stay at home mom of two boys, ages 8 and 4, with a degree in Computer Science. Aixa currently lives in China and has been doing the Lidcombe Treatment Program with her youngest son for 6 months. StutterTalk, INC has published three episodes on Lidcombe Treatment featuring professionals (see below). Today's episode is our first show featuring a parent who discusses using Lidcombe with her child. |
| June 2011 StutterTalk's Resource of the Month |
Effectiveness of Interventions for Preschool Children with Fluency Disorders: A Comparison of Direct Versus Indirect Treatments by Tobi Frymark, Rebecca Venediktov & Beverly Wang |
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In March 2010, the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association(ASHA) published a review titled Effectiveness of Interventions for Preschool Children with Fluency Disorders: A Comparison of Direct Versus Indirect Treatments. The quote below is taken from the discussion section: "Currently, there is insufficient evidence to support or refute the use of a direct intervention approach over an indirect approach in the treatment of preschool-aged children with fluency disorders. At this time, the state of the evidence comparing direct and indirect treatments is limited to one study (Franken et al., 2005). In this study, the authors compared speech and parent outcomes of children randomly assigned to the Lidcome Program (a direct treatment approach) with the Demands and Capacities model (an indirect approach), with no differences in stuttering frequency and severity ratings found" (p. 6). |
Many links to articles and research on Lidcombe can be found here.
Posted by StutterTalk at 6/21/2011 12:45 PM 
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Tags: stuttering stammering stuttering treatment lidcombe
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Thank you so much for this pod cast!
I, too, had done Lidcombe therapy with my son with a qualified therapist. However, I concluded after two months that there was zero improvement and yet I was spending a lot of money in hopes that it would work. It may work for some kids but in my opinion, I have not found any evidence that these kids who went through Lidcome could not have recovered on their own. There have been no studies in that regard. Thank you again for this pod cast and thank you Aixa for sharing. This makes me feel that I am not alone in trying to help my son.
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Thank you so much for your comments. And yes, "thank you Aixa for sharing" Aixa was fantastic. You wrote, "I have not found any evidence that these kids who went through Lidcome could not have recovered on their own." To be fair, most people who specialize in treating and researching preschool stuttering treatment that I have met are the first to say that many, many children recover without treatment. Thanks again for writing. -Peter
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