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Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders 18 37-42 March 2008.
doi:10.1044/ffd18.1.37 Copyright 2008 by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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Training Methods With Clinicians and Students—A Personal Story and Change: Narrative Therapy for Stuttering

Margaret Leahy

Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland

Educating students and informing clinicians regarding developments in therapy approaches and in evidence-based practice are important elements of the responsibility of specialist academic posts in universities. In this article, the development of narrative therapy and its theoretical background are outlined (preceded by a general outline of how the topic of fluency disorders is introduced to students at an Irish university). An example of implementing narrative therapy with a 12-year-old boy is presented. The brief case description demonstrates how narrative therapy facilitated this 12-year-old make sense of his dysfluency and his phonological disorder, leading to his improved understanding and management of the problems, fostering a sense of control that led ultimately to their resolution.






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