The Lidcombe Program of early stuttering intervention for Malaysian families: Four case studies |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury, New South Wales, 2640, Australia;2. Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, P.O. Box 170, Lidcombe, New South Wales, 1825, Australia;1. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, 63 Hatcher Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;2. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA;1. Communication, Aging and Neuropsychology Lab (CANlab), Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel;2. Oral Dynamics Lab, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;3. Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada;5. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;6. Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;7. Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;1. Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute, Kuwait;2. University of Reading, United Kingdom;3. Apple House Centre for Stammering, United Kingdom;1. Department of Communication Disorder, The Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel;2. NiNiSpeech Inc., Haifa, Israel;3. Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Israel;1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States;2. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States;3. Eastern Illinois University, United States;1. School of Health and School of Education, University of Iceland, Sæmundargötu 2, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland;2. Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA |
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| Abstract: | PurposeThis study investigated the outcomes of implementing the Lidcombe Program, an evidence-based early intervention for stuttering, with four preschool children in Malaysia. Early stuttering intervention is currently underdeveloped in Malaysia, where stuttering treatment is often more assertion-based than evidence-based. Therefore, introducing an evidence-based early stuttering intervention is an important milestone for Malaysian preschoolers who stutter.MethodThe participants ranged from 3 years 3 months to 4 years 9 months at the start of the study. Beyond-clinic speech samples were obtained at 1 month and 1 week pretreatment and immediately post-Stage 1, and at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months post-Stage 1.ResultsTwo participants, who were bilingual, achieved near-zero levels of stuttering at 12 months posttreatment. Near zero levels of stuttering were also present in their untreated languages. One participant withdrew due to reasons not connected with the research or treatment. The remaining participant, who presented with severe stuttering, completed Stage 1 but had some relapse in Stage 2 and demonstrated mild stuttering 12 months post-Stage 1.ConclusionsThe outcomes were achieved without the need to significantly adapt Lidcombe Program procedures to Malaysian culture. Further research to continue evaluation of the Lidcombe Program with Malaysian families and to estimate proportion of those who will respond is warranted. |
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| Keywords: | Lidcombe Program Pilot study Outcomes Malaysia |
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