FAMC Intensive Stuttering Treatment Program: ten years of implementation.
An intensive stuttering treatment program for military service members is described. Over a 10-year period, 117 stutters have been treated in a program in which graded airflow, tension/relaxation, electromyographic biofeedback, and a modified hierarchical desensitization procedure have been used to obtain and maintain normally fluent speech. All patients treated have met the criterion of less than 1% stuttered words. Of 57 patients followed for from 3-36 months after treatment, 42 (74%) have maintained normally fluent speech.
Speech-Language Rehabilitation Section, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, CO 80045-5001.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003120:Colorado; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D005260:Female; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013342:Stuttering / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States