The Dysfluency Resource Book Spiral-bound – 15 May 2010

Comprehensive resource book for treating adults who stammer. Completely revised and updated to take account of current practice, this new edition draws together the latest information on therapy for adults along with practical examples of exercises, tasks and activities that can be used for both individual and group programmes. With new chapters and therapy ideas, this is an extremely useful resource for all speech & language therapists and students working with adults who stammer. This useful resource seeks to explain techniques for treating people who stammer and the rationale for their use. This volume forms a catalogue of treatment options from which clinicians may choose to use all of the techniques or pick out particular sections according to their clients special requirements. The first edition of this book proved to be a very useful tool for speech and language professionals, and this new edition has come about largely because clinicians, speech and language therapists and teachers have requested it. With the inclusion of 50 photocopiable handouts and the presentation of the chapters in the order they would use with their own group programmes, the authors set out the principles of therapy in such a way that the treatment techniques fit into a clear management approach.

Contents:

1 Principles of therapy

2 Communication skills

3 Information on stammering

4 Variation: non-speech and speech

5 Identification

6 Covert identification

7 Desensitisation

8 Voluntary stammering

9 Avoidance reduction therapy

10 Relaxation

11 Breathing

12 Rate control

13 Easy onset

14 Block modification

15 Maintenance: a continuing process of change

16 Working in groups

Handouts:

1 Non-verbal behaviour

2 Increasing eye contact when stammering

3 People s bingo: eye contact exercise

4 Sentences for facial expression exercise

5 Feedback sheet

6 Gesture

7 Gesture cards

8 Activities to act out using gesture alone

9 Good posture

10 Posture exercise

11 Posture questionnaire

12 Posture: home practice

13 Observer checklist

14 Story for listening exercise

15 Checklist for listening exercise

16 Listening skills observation exercise

17 Keeping the conversation going

18 Basic information on stammering

19 Normal speech production: questionnaire

20 Normal speech production: answers to questionnaire

21 Speech production 22 Guidelines for experimenting with change

23 Experimenting with your speech 24 Describing overt stammering symptoms

25 Checklist of overt stammering behaviours

26 An example of a stammering iceberg

27 The iceberg (blank)

28 Identifying your hidden emotions about stammering

29 Exploring the hidden part of your stammer

30 Important situations

31 Avoidance checklist

32 Noticing your unhelpful thinking

33 Desensitisation

34 Voluntary stammering

35 Making a hierarchy

36 Diary sheet for avoidance reduction exercises

37 Sentence completion exercise

38 Progressive relaxation

39 Techniques for head and neck relaxation

40 Breathing exercises: a 10-point programme

41 Good breathing

42 Why should I pause?

43 Ways to change the speed of your speech

44 Practising easy onset at monosyllabic word level

45 Block modification

46 Grid for a toolbox

47 Emma s toolbox

48 Problem solving

49 A sample hierarchy

50 Strategies for developing positive thinking