Treating people who stutter: Intervention methodologies
Donatella Tomaiuoli, Biancamaria Venuti
Over the years, a number of authors have highlighted that stuttering is a complex, multi-factorial and multi-dimensional disorder and that at the same time there is much more to stuttering than a superficial analysis of observable symptoms. The consequences of stuttering have repercussions at various levels that go beyond the mere analysis of observable speech disfluencies. The complex interaction among different factors, each with their own clout, produces different outcomes, depending on how these characteristics interact and merge in every individual. As a consequence, stuttering may take different forms depending on the individuals that it affects. In accordance with the above, we need to give a multi-dimensional character to its assessment and treatment, and to differentiate the latter from individual to individual, depending on the way in which these factors combine and how the disorder manifests in each individual.
Keywords
Stuttering, Multifactorial, Multidimensional treatment.