commentr/StutterSeptember 16, 2025

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Yes the clinic is based in an Australian University (UTS) - and they actually do virtual sessions over the internet - I recommend you do that: [https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centres/australian-stuttering-research-centre/clinic](https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centres/australian-stuttering-research-centre/clinic) The other thing I will mention is that I personally, and the parents I know who faced similar issues, needed to modify the reward systems of the Lidcombe program approach. My son for example hated doing daily therapy - even though it was only 15 minutes - getting him to do it was impossible. That was until I introduced candy/chocolate rewards just for being an active participant (not for speaking smoothly - he got the rewards every 2 mins during the 15 minutes just for continuing to participate). This made an enormous different because he just loves candy and will do basically anything to get it. A friend of mine's son on the other hand would not care at all about candy rewards, or verbal feedback given to him directly. So she started actually giving feedback to his sister in front of him on his sisters smooth talking (she didnt have a stutter but this was the mechanism she thought would get to him). That approach started to indirectly effect how he wanted to get that same feedback. This led to him wanting to be rewarded like his sister - and praised like she was. In the end to make it work you need to know the language techniques and play based approaches - but to some extent - you need to also be an expert in what will motivate your own child. Every child is different and you know your child better than any speech therapist ever will. Take the expert guidance -and through experience you need to figure out how to make it work for your own child's personality and motivations. Good luck!

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