The Camperdown Program is a treatment for stuttering in teenagers and adults. It has been developed recently by researchers at the ASRC and it takes its name from the ASRC research clinic at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, which is located in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown. The aim of the program, which is described in the Camperdown Program Manual , is to provide a way for to speak without stuttering. It has been used in intensive group programs for chronic stuttering for decades. These programs typically train participants to use the speech pattern at a very slow rate.
Participants increase their speech rate systematically through programmed instruction.
This stops stuttering in the clinic, and then the participant attempts to use the technique to stop stuttering outside the clinic. The advantages of this new program are significant. Most importantly, participants require much less time to learn to use the speech pattern, and so clinical hours are greatly reduced. The changes that have been incorporated into the Camperdown Program were driven by laboratory research.