How Does a Professional Plan Treatment for Someone Who Stutters
Stuttering is a disorder. Although there is no known cure, a speech language can develop a plan so this can help someone who stutters.
The first step is for the speech language pathologist to do an assessment of the individual. This means screening all areas of communicative function and then goes in depth in the form of clinical observations, standardized and non-standardized tests.
If the results show that the childs language development is delayed, then this will focus on language. If the language development is not the problem then it will focus on something else like fluency. But in some cases, the child has both problems.
The speech language therapist is not the only one who gathers information before recommending the proper treatment. Other data that was collected from other medical professionals will also be checked to see if both are accurate.
Many specialists use the 4 levels of linguistic analysis to assess the child. These four levels are namely phonetic and phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic-pragmatic.
1. In the phonological level, the...