Journal article
Meet Them Where They're At: Maximizing Adolescents' Engagement in Stuttering Therapy
Seminars in speech and language, Vol.17(2), pp.161-172
03/2022
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742450
PMID: 35697037
Abstract
Abstract
Adolescents who stutter often pose a unique clinical challenge for clinicians. They are a population simultaneously striving for independence from adults and social connection with their peers at a time when social fears surge and lifelong habits take root. It is a time when they may seem “unmotivated” to learn and utilize new communication or coping skills related to stuttering. How can clinicians maximize adolescents' engagement in stuttering therapy to improve meaningful outcomes? The purpose of this article is to describe a transtheoretical approach to assessing adolescents' readiness to make positive changes to living with stuttering, and to provide motivational interviewing strategies that clinicians can employ to help propel adolescents toward personally significant change. These principles will be applied to the case study of a 14-year-old who stutters to demonstrate how clinicians can put this approach to work as they meet their adolescent clients “where they're at.”
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Meet Them Where They're At: Maximizing Adolescents' Engagement in Stuttering Therapy
- Creators
- Naomi H. Rodgers - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Seminars in speech and language, Vol.17(2), pp.161-172
- DOI
- 10.1055/s-0042-1742450
- PMID
- 35697037
- NLM abbreviation
- Semin Speech Lang
- ISSN
- 0734-0478
- eISSN
- 1098-9056
- Publisher
- Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2022
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984276458602771
Metrics
64 Record Views