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Future Seminars
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This seminar is designed for anyone who needs an introduction to the disorder or to refresh basic knowledge about stuttering. The seminar begins with an overview of the various moments of stuttering that occur and the potential effects on the speaker throughout life. Methods of diagnosis are discussed with particular reference to stuttering and normal disfluency of early childhood. Clinical measurement of severity is discussed and the progression of type and severity of stuttering from onset to adulthood is overviewed.
The rates of stuttering onset and its natural course of development are considered, with special reference to natural recovery during childhood. Treatment of stuttering is considered, with reference to the best time of life to present various treatments, with particular reference to new treatment developments.
Based on a growing body of research evidence, the onset and development of speech related social anxiety and stuttering is given considerable attention, and treatment developments in this area are considered.
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What does natural recovery mean clinically? Everyone knows that natural recovery occurs for some children in the early stages of childhood stuttering, but exactly what is it really that we know? Or rather, what does scientific research really allow us to say we know and how will it influence what we do in the clinic? Is natural recovery a predictable or a straightforward process? What is the chance that a child will recover naturally and do certain case history features increase or decrease that chance?
These issues are critical in making a decision with a stuttering preschooler about whether to wait to see if natural recovery will occur, or to begin treatment. Other issues that need to be considered are how long treatment will take to have an effect once you do decide to begin treatment, and whether the time for treatment is the same at different times during the preschool years.
It is also clinically important to know whether there are any scientific grounds to expect that stuttering might cause harm to preschool children. The adverse affects of chronic stuttering are well known, but when do they begin to become apparent? Could it be that there are adverse effects of stuttering apparent during the first year after onset? If that is the case, then it will be an important consideration in the timing of early intervention. |
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This seminar is designed to for clinicians and others with a general interest in the scientific research that has been with stuttering. During this seminar Professor Onslow presents a personal view on the ten most important research findings ever reported for stuttering.
A research finding qualifies to be considered important if it yields a stunning insight into the cause or nature of stuttering, or how it might be treated clinically. Further, to be accepted as a bona fide research finding about stuttering, it needs to be replicated in peer reviewed scientific journals. In other words, a research finding about stuttering cannot be considered important if it is not verified by at least one group of researchers who are independent of those who originally reported it.
Professor Onslow presents a personal view that a series of stunning research findings are gradually closing in on the cause and nature of stuttering and how it might best be treated.
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