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Developing Treatment for Adolescents Who Stutter: A Phase I Trial of the Camperdown Program

Contact author: Mark Onslow, Australian Stuttering Research Centre, P.O. Box 170, Lidcombe NSW 1825. E-mail: m.onslow{at}usyd.edu.au.

Purpose: To investigate in detail how adolescents who stutter perform during treatment, with the aim of informing treatment development for this age group.

Method: The Camperdown Program was conducted with 3 adolescents who stutter. Their performance during treatment was recorded in detail, and outcome measures were collected before treatment and on 5 occasions after treatment.

Results: One participant responded extremely well to treatment, with percentage of syllables stuttered (%SS) scores at 12 months follow-up around 1%. In addition, his speech naturalness was within normal limits. Another participant withdrew from treatment during maintenance, yet he still approximately halved his pretreatment %SS scores and was also sounding natural after treatment. This participant was satisfied with his treatment outcome. A third participant did not reach maintenance and did not benefit from the treatment.

Conclusion: The adolescent who succeeded in treatment presented with a high level of self-confidence and maturity. When examining the factors that seemed to impact on treatment outcome, an underlying theme of decreased parent influence and increased peer influence and self-direction was detected. These are fundamental during the journey through adolescence from childhood to adulthood. Future directions in developing treatments for adolescents are discussed.

KEY WORDS: stuttering, adolescence, treatment, trial, Camperdown

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