A three-phased modeling program was presented to 12 children between the ages of 3 and 10 who had been diagnosed as stutterers. The children learned to identify a model's disfluencies, the model's subsequent lessening of the severity of these disfluencies and the model's ultimate achievement of normally fluent speech. Comparative measures of the subjects' stuttering pre-and post-program are presented. Results indicate significant reduction in stuttering. Therapeutic profiles and the theoretical basis upon which the modeling program was structured are presented.
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