Stuttering and the Preschool Child: Help for Families.STUTTERING stuttering or stammering, speech disorder marked by hesitation and inability to enunciate consonants without spasmodic repetition. Known technically as dysphemia, it has sometimes been attributed to an underlying personality disorder. AND THE PRESCHOOL CHILD: Help for Families 30 minutes, VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. , 1994. STUTTERING AND YOUR CHILD: A Videotape for Parents 30 minutes, VHS, 1994. Stuttering Foundation of America, 1-800-992-9392. The work of the Stuttering Foundation of America in helping to inform and educate parents and educators is particularly laudable laud·a·ble adj. Healthy; favorable. , since stuttering receives little notice in the literature. The first film reviewed here offers insights from medical personnel, speech therapists speech therapist Speech pathologist, speech/language therapist A health professional trained to evaluate and treat voice, speech, language, or swallowing disorders–eg, hearing impairment, that affect communication. See Speech pathology. , children, and parents. Parents can be reluctant to acknowledge a child's stuttering problem; the film shows ways in which they can come to understand the need for evaluation and therapy. Examples of children stuttering in a range of situations will help viewers Help Viewer is a WebCore based HTML viewer aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/Help Viewer.app. The default file extension is ".help". Help index files are generated with Help Indexer. understand how the interplay of physical factors and the environment affect children. Treatment options are illustrated, helping viewers better understand the dynamic possibilities of the process. The second film is broken into three segments: 1) defining stuttering, 2) origins and triggers of stuttering, and 3) how parents can help. Disfluencies are illustrated (e.g., repetition of sounds and short words, sound prolongation PROLONGATION. Time added to the duration of something. 2. When the time is lengthened during which a party is to perform a contract, the sureties of such a party are in general discharged, unless the sureties consent to such prolongation. See Giving time. , and blockages of speech). The film offers recommendations for evaluation and therapy. Extensions: Both films would serve to better inform early childhood and primary grade teachers, as well as parents, of the difficulties children face related to stuttering. The films could be used to advantage in parents' meetings and in small-group sessions. Participants at district parent/staff meetings on special needs and on developmental needs will find these films useful. |
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