Stuttering Treatment Research Published That Shows What Works

Stuttering Treatment Research Published That Shows What Works Below is a systematic review of stuttering treatment research from 1970 through 2005. It shows that Prolonged Speech therapy is the most effective treatment for stuttering. I am a speech pathologist who used to stutter severely. I went through a prolonged speech program in 1982 and have been helping other people who stutter ever since. Let me know if you have any questions. Review Am J Speech Lang Pathol . 2006 Nov;15(4):321-41. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2006/031). # Stuttering treatment research 1970-2005: I. Systematic review incorporating trial quality assessment of behavioral, cognitive, and related approaches [Anne K Bothe](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bothe+AK&cauthor_id=17102144) [^(1)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17102144/#full-view-affiliation-1), [Jason H Davidow](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Davidow+JH&cauthor_id=17102144), [Robin E Bramlett](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bramlett+RE&cauthor_id=17102144), [Roger J Ingham](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Ingham+RJ&cauthor_id=17102144) # Abstract **Purpose:** To complete a systematic review, with trial quality assessment, of published research about behavioral, cognitive, and related treatments for developmental stuttering. Goals included the identification of treatment recommendations and research needs based on the available high-quality evidence about stuttering treatment for preschoolers, school-age children, adolescents, and adults. **Conclusions:** Review of studies that met the trial quality inclusion criterion established for this review suggested that response-contingent principles are the predominant feature of the most powerful treatment procedures for young children who stutter. The most powerful treatments for adults, with respect to both speech outcomes and social, emotional, or cognitive outcomes, appear to combine variants of **prolonged speech**, self-management, response contingencies, and other infrastructural variables. [Stuttering Research Article link](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17102144/)