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O'Brian, Sue; Hayhow, Rosemarie; Jones, Mark; Packman, Ann; Iverach, Lisa; Onslow, Mark; Menzies, Ross – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Early intervention is essential healthcare for stuttering, and the translation of research findings to community settings is a potential roadblock to it. Aims: This study was designed to replicate and extend the Lidcombe Program community translation findings of O'Brian et al. (2013) but with larger participant numbers, incorporating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Stuttering, Translation
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Helgadottir, Fjola Dogg; Menzies, Ross G.; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; O'Brian, Sue – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: Those with anxiety use safety behaviors when attempting to prevent negative outcomes. There is evidence that these behaviors contribute to the persistence of anxiety disorders. Safety behaviors have been prominent in the cognitive behavior therapy literature during the last decade, particularly with social phobia management. However,…
Descriptors: Adults, Stuttering, Anxiety, Safety
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Arnott, Simone; Onslow, Mark; O'Brian, Sue; Packman, Ann; Jones, Mark; Block, Susan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study adds to the Lidcombe Program evidence base by comparing individual and group treatment of preschoolers who stutter. Method: A randomized controlled trial of 54 preschoolers was designed to establish whether group delivery outcomes were not inferior to the individual model. The group arm used a rolling group model, in which a…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Therapy, Group Therapy, Preschool Children
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Karimi, Hamid; Jones, Mark; O'Brian, Sue; Onslow, Mark – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: At present, percent syllables stuttered (%SS) is the gold standard outcome measure for behavioural stuttering treatment research. However, ordinal severity rating (SR) procedures have some inherent advantages over that method. Aims: To establish the relationship between Clinician %SS, Clinician SR and self-reported Speaker SR. To…
Descriptors: Syllables, Stuttering, Severity (of Disability), Measurement Techniques
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Carey, Brenda; O'Brian, Sue; Onslow, Mark; Block, Susan; Jones, Mark; Packman, Ann – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Although there are treatments that can alleviate stuttering in adults for clinically significant periods, in Australia there are barriers to the accessibility and availability of best-practice treatment. Aims: This parallel group, non-inferiority randomized controlled trial with multiple blinded outcome assessments investigated whether…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Outcomes of Treatment, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications
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Jones, Mark; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; O'Brian, Sue; Hearne, Anna; Williams, Shelley; Ormond, Tika; Schwarz, Ilsa – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: In the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention, parents present verbal contingencies for stutter-free and stuttered speech in everyday situations. A previous randomized controlled trial of the programme with preschool-age children from 2005, conducted in two public speech clinics in New Zealand, showed that the odds of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Early Intervention, Stuttering, Preschool Children