Explore and empathize parents' perceptions, feelings and attitudes 3. Offer reassurance - help parents deal with guilt and offer hope 4. Provide suggestions for improving fluency 5. Make appropriate referrals to other professionals as needed. These are some of the steps and activities that parents can carry out at home to prevent borderline or incipient stuttering from becoming chronic.
Indirect therapy is targeted towards parents.
Woody Starkweather, Sheryl Gottwald and Murray Halfond have outlined a three-stage process consisting of education, attitude change and behavior change. Education and attitude change essentially involve the same steps as outlined under preventive parent counseling above. Reinforcing conversational rules for better turn-taking with fewer interruptions and allowing more time for the child to initiate new topics. Setting aside a daily 15-minute special talking time with undivided attention and relaxed atmosphere. Simple, short utterances.