Long-term Outcomes from an Intensive Treatment Programme for 8-12 Year Old Children who Stammer

Polly Mitchell and David Ward

Intensive fluency programmes for 8-12 year old children have run at The Apple House, Oxford since 1991. A recent study (Mitchell & Ward, 2005) presented outcome-measures on over 50 children attending Courses between 1999 and 2005 at post-clinic and 3 month post-clinic time periods. However, the sustainability of gains made in treatment over an extended time period remains one of the key issues in any fluency programme. With this in mind, the current presentation reports on the maintenance of both cognitive and behavioural changes made by children who attended the fluency programmes at up to 6 years post-clinic.