Stuttering therapy in the elementary school setting: guidelines for clinician-teacher collaboration.
This article describes guidelines for developing an effective collaborative/consultative approach to the treatment of stuttering in an elementary school setting. Four primary areas of shared clinician/teacher responsibility are discussed, which include: education, observation, facilitation of fluent speech, and generalization of speech fluency. Although the speech-language pathologist should initiate the teacher's involvement in a child's therapy, both the clinician and teacher should work toward developing a mutually influential partnership, through which the specific needs of individual children who stutter can be addressed in a comprehensive manner.
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Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools; D013342:Stuttering / Q000628:therapy*; D013663:Teaching