The Fluency Program at UB's Speech- Language and Hearing Clinic runs continuously throughout the academic year.
Therapeutic approaches differ for adults and children who are nonfluent.
The orientation for young children emphasizes family participation in modifying the environment to promote easy, relaxed and effortless speech production. Therapy for school-age children may focus more on learning specific techniques for enhancing fluency. Adults who stutter learn to use methods of fluent speech production and to overcome the feelings and emotions that have developed in reaction to stuttering. The program begins with an assessment of the current status of the stuttering as well as identifying and evaluating the influence of factors which relate to stuttering. The Program for Children.