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Fun With Fluency: Direct Therapy With the Young Child

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For those who are uncomfortable with stuttering therapy, this book is for you. The first half of the book requires reading. It offers a great review of stuttering and then goes into a hierarchial progression of therapy. This book focuses on stuttering therapy with young children, ages 2 1/2 to 7 years. It deals with direct therapy techniques.

The hierarchy takes you from single words, two words, three words, carrier phrases, extended carrier phrases, prepositional phrases, all the way to high-level demand tasks such as explaining or describing, and storytelling.

The authors then give you a continuum of direct therapy strategies to teach the child: easy speech and streatchy talk, make direct requests for easy speech, model short and easy repetitions, model self-corrections, play speech cops games, teach tigger talk (easy bouncing), introduce hard speech, talk about pushing, contrast easy speech with hard speech, and embrace the speech villans.

The last half of the book is packed with therapy activities that you can copy and use with your students.

I really like the therapy sequence they have set up, and have found this book to be very useful. I've got my own personal copy. If you like a cookbook for a crutch to boost your confidence or are short on therapy ideas, you'll like this book.