School-Age and Adolescent
School-Age and Adolescent Stuttering Therapy
School-age children and adolescents have typically lived with stuttering for quite a while, sometimes developing unhelpful coping strategies. The child’s experience of stuttering can change during this period of development requiring an adjustment of treatment to meet the unique needs of this age group.
At Pathways Forward your school-age or adolescent child will learn a variety of skills to help improve their communication. This may include learning to understand and modify speech production for more easy forward movement, navigating thoughts and feelings about stuttering and communication, learning more helpful ways of viewing stuttering, as well as how to achieve their communication goals even when situations are challenging.
In addition, your child will be coached in advocacy to help others, including teachers and coaches, support them in having positive communication experiences. With your permission, I will be happy to collaborate with your child’s classroom teachers and school staff to support progress in the educational environment.
Multi-Factored Evaluation
Stuttering and other fluency disorders are complex. It is critical that therapy begins with a comprehensive, multi-factored evaluation. This allows therapy to be tailored to meet the unique needs of you or your child. The evaluation process provides for appropriate diagnosis, understanding of relevant contributing factors, and collaboration in goal setting based on client and family preferences.
In addition, if you or your child have co-occurring speech and language difficulties those can be addressed in the evaluation and therapy as well.
If you have had a recent evaluation, it may be accepted in full or part in place of the multi-factored evaluation.
How to Get Started
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