‘Made to Measure’: Does Client's Experience 'Make' our Therapy?

Durdana Putker-de Bruijn

A Dutch translation of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES; Yaruss & Quesal, in press) and Assessment of the Child’s Experience of Stuttering (ACES; Yaruss, Coleman & Quesal, in preparation) questionnaires have been used in the Netherlands. Together with the refining of the Dutch versions, Dutch therapists are developing a way to use these questionnaires to evaluate therapy-outcomes and to help make therapy decisions. In this presentation the process of developing a correct translation and the results of trials for measuring therapy-outcome with these questionnaires will be discussed.