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1Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park.
Purpose:
We argue against suggestions for a new "two-factor" approach to early stuttering that counsels rate and turn-taking adjustments to child-directed parental speech.
Conclusion:
We find that (a) the suggested approach is not new; (b) the limited pilot data are directly contradicted by a much larger scale, longer duration study published in this journal this year that shows no relationships between rate and turn-taking and recovery from stuttering; (c) rate and turn-taking adjustments may bring with them additional negative changes in parental speech; and (d) the proposed treatment continues to emphasize the role of parents in determining recovery from stuttering, a belief with insufficient evidence and which carries potential harm.
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