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 Fluency disorders such as stuttering, cluttering, and atypical disfluency are often accompanied by concomitant speech and language disorders, as well as other disorders impacting and interacting with fluency. Despite this common presentation, there is little training for speech-language pathologists to confidently treat fluency disorders and concomitant disorders together. Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses fills this much-needed gap, providing a strong research base along with practical strategies and treatment activities to guide speech-language pathologists in managing clients with fluency and concomitant disorders.

Dr. Kathleen Scaler Scott brings her years of clinical experience and her research in the areas of stuttering, cluttering and atypical disfluencies to Fluency Plus, designing it to act as both a textbook for students and a practical guide for the clinician. The comprehensive review of current definitions of fluency disorders and the evidence base for treatments will be of great help to students, while clinicians will appreciate the specific guidelines, strategies, and activities for managing fluency in concomitant disorders.

After reviewing general principles and covering how executive functions relate to the management of these multiple concerns, the text addresses seven concomitant disorder areas the speech-language pathologist may encounter in practice. For each disorder category, an overview of potential fluency problems is provided, myths regarding treatment of fluency disorders in each population are debunked, and effective treatment activities are recommended.
Some Concomitant Disorders Covered:

• Intellectual Disability
• Speech Sound Disorders (apraxia, phonological, articulation disorders)
• Learning Disabilities, Auditory Processing and Language Disorders
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Selective Mutism

Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses helps close an education and training gap for students and clinicians alike by increasing their confidence, knowledge, and skills when dealing with fluency disorders and complex combinations of concomitant disorders. 

Ages: 3–Adult
Grades: PreK–Adult

The Source® Stuttering and Cluttering–Second Edition provides the latest evidence-based information on stuttering and cluttering assessment and treatment. This reliable resource includes assessment and treatment techniques for preschool through adulthood. 

Recently updated from the first edition to reflect current treatment information, The Source® Stuttering and Cluttering has been expanded to apply to a wider age range. This product includes extensive reproducible resources for assessment and treatment, including:

• Numerous fillable forms for electronic use
• Helpful activities and exercises for all age ranges
• Detailed examples of client paperwork, including evaluation reports, treatment goals and lesson plan templates, requests for accommodations, and much more.

The Source® Stuttering and Cluttering–Second Edition is your go-to resource for all your clients with stuttering and cluttering issues.

Very few people are aware of the significant negative impact that cluttering -- a communication disorder that affects a person's ability to speak in a clear, concise and fluent manner --  can have on one's life educationally, socially and vocationally. Although different from stuttering, it is often related to this more well-known disorder. This book treats cluttering as a serious communication disorder in its own right, providing an in-depth examination of the critical factors surrounding its assessment, treatment and research.

Using evidence-based data as well as information regarding the assessment and treatment of cluttering within the field of speech-language pathology, the volume includes the latest research findings and work from leading cluttering experts, worldwide. Current viewpoints regarding cluttering, along with substantiated evidence are provided. Research findings are presented regarding the nature and neurology of cluttering. A range of assessment and treatment methodologies are described in the context of disorders that may co-occur with cluttering, such as autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, Down syndrome and stuttering. Future directions with regards to the definition, teaching and researching of cluttering are also addressed.

Clinicians, faculty members, researchers, students in the field of speech pathology, and those who clutter, alike, will find this book an essential and unique source of information on cluttering.

Target group: school-age children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with cluttering

Cluttering is a communication disorder where speech sounds overly rapid, or contains rapid bursts, together with poorly articulated or jerky speech. Cluttered speech typically sounds rushed and disorganized.

Managing Cluttering: A Comprehensive Guidebook of Activities is designed to help speech-language pathologists address the needs of their clients with cluttering. This straightforward, easy-to-understand approach to assessing and treating cluttering provides:

• evidence-based rationale for activities used
• step-by-step instructions on treatment methods
• easily reproducible parent letters and client home activities
• special chapters on cluttering and stuttering and on cluttering combined with other diagnoses

Managing Cluttering is a useful resource for speech-language pathologists working in any setting, and with clients of any age. Reproducible worksheets, home activities, and parent letters are included as reproducible PDFs in additional files.

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237 pages • E-Book with additional downloadable file of reproducible PDFs • ©2013strength, and coordination.

Putting it All Together (PiAT) offers step by step activities for students to learn how to create sentences with increasing complexity. It is an excellent expressive language lesson plan with built in scaffolding and supports to help every student achieve success.

Who is it for: any student (grades 4-12) who struggles with a language delay, sentence formulation, sentence variation, understanding syntax, organizing thoughts, expressive language, stuttering, cluttering, and excessive non-stuttering like dysfluencies.

What does it offer:

This bundle offers lessons 1-10. Each lesson focuses on a different part of speech or syntactical structure. Those are: NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, DIRECT OBJECTS, INDIRECT OBJECTS, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES, WHEN CLAUSES, EMBEDDED WHO CLAUSES, EMBEDDED THAT CLAUSES. Each lesson offers these activities:

· An easy to understand definition of the part of speech or syntactical structure being taught

· Circle it: starting with guiding questions, can the student find the syntactical element?

· Choose it: choose a word or phrase that completes the sentence. First all of the choices work. Then only one choice works.

· Story: A unique positive short story in order to give information and context for further expressive language activities.

· Puzzle Sentences: These are groups of words containing the syntactical element and working with information from the story to give context.

· Wh Questions: These are questions where the students can use the story and the sentence puzzles to show comprehension of the story.

· Summarize: Taking the notes from the WH questions, the student puts all of the key information into a summarizing paragraph with given prompts and supports.

· Connect and Share: This supports the student connecting with ideas in the story and sharing their own thoughts and experiences.

· Create It: offers word banks, phrase banks and sentence frames to support the student using the syntactical element in their own sentences.

· Story: offers the student a chance to link ideas and create sentences that have a story arc. This gives the student an opportunity to really develop ideas and create a flow for a full story.

Research Based: Dr. Kathy Scaler Scott PhD. CCC-SLP and Teresa Talbott CCC-SLP conducted a study on neuro-diverse students who also exhibited different kinds of fluency challenges such as excessive NSLD, cluttering and atypical dysfluency. They found that working with language formulation and organization significantly helped students become more efficient in speaking. These activities were developed in accordance with that research.

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