Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Australian-developed treatment program for young children who stutter has been proved highly successful in a world-first scientific ...

About one child in twenty stutters at some stage. While it usually goes away by itself, early treatment gives the child the best chance of overcoming it. Published 28/09/2005 What distinguishes us ...

Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe programme of early stuttering intervention The participants in this New Zealand study were 54 pre-school children - 29 entered into the Lidcombe programme, ...

For children with a speech difficulty, school life can be miserable. There is a solution, writes Anna McAlister. ON DAY two at his new school, Liam, 6, punched two older boys. He'd tried responding ...

IN A world-first study, medical researchers are trying to discover whether babies are likely to develop stuttering in later life – before they even start to speak. The Lidcombe-based researchers are ...

Stand-up comics might get some mileage out of it, but for anyone who stutters it's no joke. Stuttering is a common speech impediment affecting as many as one child in 12. A stutter can be barely ...

Mark Onslow receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and the Australia Research Council. Most speech and language disorders of early childhood are obvious ...