Therapy for Persons Who Stutter: Eastern Europe and Latin America

Steen Fibiger, Herman Peters and Katrin Neumann

The Fluency Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics recently carried out a survey in Eastern Europe and Latin America. The aim of the survey was to get a status of fluency therapy and service opportunities. Information was collected on prevalence and incidence rates, involvement of government-affiliated agencies, prices, insurances, social support, financing, information and education about stuttering and stuttering therapy, training of speech-language pathologists, specialization in stuttering therapy, and cooperation with other specialists. Information has been collected for the following 5 age groups: infants and preschool children, primary school children, secondary school children, adolescents and for adults. Results of this survey will be discussed.