What is the Lidcombe approach?

What is the Lidcombe approach?

The Lidcombe Program is a behavioural treatment, which targets children’s stuttered speech. During the Lidcombe Program treatment children are not instructed to change their customary speech pattern in any way.

How effective is the Lidcombe program?

The most significant predictor of outcome was Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium (LPTC) training. The children of trained SLPs (n = 19), compared to the children of untrained SLPs, took 76% more sessions to complete stage 1, but achieved 54% lower %SS scores, 9 months after starting treatment.

Is the Lidcombe program a direct treatment?

The treatment is direct. This means that it involves the parent commenting directly about the child’s speech. This parent feedback needs to be generally positive. The parent comments primarily when the child speaks without stuttering and only occasionally when the child stutters.

What is the goal of the Lidcombe program?

The fundamental premise of the Lidcombe Program is that parent verbal contingencies are the active treatment agent for eliminating or greatly reducing stuttering. So, when the clinician feels it to be appropriate, it is logical for those parent verbal contingencies to occur during everyday conversations with children.

What age is Lidcombe for?

The Lidcombe Program was developed for children younger than 6 years. Children as young as 2 years have participated in clinical trials. One clinical trial showed that the Lidcombe Program can be effective with children in age range 7–12 years.

How much is Lidcombe training?

The workshop will include short lectures, small group and large group activities, viewing and discussion of clinic visit videos, and case discussions. Certificates of attendance will be issued at the completion of the workshop. Cost is $440 per person.

How long does the Lidcombe program take?

How long does the Lidcombe Program take? Children differ in the time they take to complete the Lidcombe Program. However, on average it takes about 12 visits to the clinic to get to the point where stuttering has gone or is at an extremely low level.

How does Lidcombe program work?

When you cut through the jargon, the idea behind the Lidcombe Program is simple. You reward the behaviour you want (smooth, fluent speech). You punish the behaviour you don’t want (stuttering).

How long is Lidcombe program?

Children differ in the time they take to complete the Lidcombe Program. However, on average it takes about 12 visits to the clinic to get to the point where stuttering has gone or is at an extremely low level.

What is demands and capacities model?

The demands and capacities model proposed that each child possesses a unique set of capacities and a level of speech performance that evolves from those capacities. If a child’s capacities match the speech demands of a particular speaking situation, fluency will result.

What is Diagnosogenic theory?

The diagnosogenic (semantogenic) theory for the onset of stuttering was initially proposed by Wendell Johnson in the early 1940s. It suggested that calling attention to a child’s normal hesitations (repetitions) could precipitate stuttering (Bloodstein, 1987).

What is the covert repair hypothesis?

Basically, the covert repair hypothesis contends that disfluencies reflect the interfering side-effects of covert, prearticulatory repairing of speech programming errors on the ongoing speech. This reasoning is argued to apply to both normal and stuttered disfluency.

What are the stages of the Lidcombe program?

The Lidcombe Program has two stages. During Stage 1, the parent conducts the treatment each day and the parent and child attend the speech clinic once a week. This continues until stuttering either is gone or reaches an extremely low level.

How is stuttering measured in the Lidcombe program?

Measuring stuttering Regular measurement of children’s stuttering severity occurs during the Lidcombe Program with a Severity Rating (SR) scale: 0 = no stuttering, 1 = extremely mild stuttering, and 9 = extremely severe stuttering.† Parents and clinicians use the SR scale during the Lidcombe Program. Parents visit the clinic each week

How does parent feedback work in the Lidcombe program?

This parent feedback needs to be generally positive. The parent comments primarily when the child speaks without stuttering and only occasionally when the child stutters. The parent does not comment on the child’s speech all the time, but chooses specific times during the day during which to give the child feedback.