Easy does it for fluency

By Barbara A. Heinze

Subjects: Treatment, Handbooks, manuals, Stuttering in children

Description: Easy Does It® for Fluency Intermediate Ages: 6-12 Grades: 1-7 Students take an active role in their therapy and develop fluent speech through motor, linguistic, and psychosocial changes. This comprehensive program spells out a clear therapy program and shows you how to tailor treatment to individual student needs. Experienced and beginning clinicians love the Easy Does It series for its: detailed explanation of therapy techniques systematic lesson plans clear goals and objectives student practice activities and materials take-home activities Easy Does It for Fluency Intermediate is a direct approach to therapy. The focus is on forward flowing speech or word-initiation techniques, or both, depending on the needs of the student. The student takes an active role in identifying what he does when stuttering and determining what needs to be changed. Students are encouraged to verbalize goals and behaviors, self-monitor, and self-reinforce. Three potential components of stuttering are addressed: Motor-address rate control and continuous phonation; learn to use bouncing, sliding, easy onsets, and light contacts Linguistic-activities emphasize language skills for problem solving, informing, conversation, and expressing feelings; length and complexity of response are factored in Psychosocial-develop positive attitudes and reduce emotional reactions; desensitize to fluency disruptors.