Cognitive-behavioral therapy is one approach for helping children change their thoughts and feelings about stuttering. These changes can lead to better therapy outcomes as children develop coping strategies, test their beliefs about listener reactions, and take risks like using speech tools in fr...

This 128-minute program demonstrates speech management strategies to help you work effectively with children and adults who stutter.

Chapters include:
- Exploring talking and stuttering
- Identification
- Explore stuttering
- Explore change
- Tools for change
- Soft starts
- Changing ra...

This 90-minute video, featuring speech-language pathologist Patricia Zebrowski, Ph.D., is an ideal tool for clinicians working with adolescents who stutter.

It includes:
- Understanding Adolescence
- Getting To Know the Adolescent
- Motor Training Skills
- Mental Training

Part of a ser...

The roots of Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering are found in the pioneering work of the late Joseph Sheehan, a professor of psychology at UCLA, and his wife Vivian Sheehan, a Los Angeles-based speech pathologist. The Sheehans applied concepts from conflict theory and role theory to formul...

There has been increased interest in understanding the variety of speech disfluency patterns among those with autism spectrum disorders.

Case studies that describe types of disfluencies have added to our knowledge base. While both stuttering and 'atypical' disfluencies (final part-word repetit...