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Guitar, Barry; Peters, Theodore J. – 1980
In recent years, most disagreement about stuttering therapy has boiled down to a preference for one of two major approaches. Some clinicians have preferred to help stutterers learn not to avoid stuttering, but to approach it and to learn to stutter in simpler and easier ways; this approach is known as stuttering modification therapy. Proponents of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Modification, Children
Speech Foundation of America, Memphis, TN. – 1982
This volume contains five papers presented at a conference on developmental and environmental factors related to the onset of stuttering, evaluation and treatment procedures, and the measurement of therapy outcomes. In "The Development of Fluency in Normal Children," C. W. Starkweather considers evaluation of the fluency of young…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Modification, Children, Handicap Identification
Speech Foundation of America, Memphis, TN. – 1984
This volume contains six papers presented by speech therapists at a conference dealing with principles and procedures that are crucial to transfer and maintenance of the modification of stuttering and the production of increased fluency. E. G. Conture, in "The General Problem of Change," addresses some of the general issues which affect…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Modification
Kaplan, Steven P. – 1983
This paper describes a community-based treatment model for people who are psychiatrically disabled and living outside an institutional setting. The background of the Community Rehabilitation Approach (CRA) is described including Training in Community Living (TCL) which involves: (1) assertively bringing treatment to the client directly in the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)