tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post3674361279301590119..comments2024-03-24T15:07:18.773+01:00Comments on The Stuttering Brain: It's the impact, stupid!Tom Weidighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-50258325981358416582009-01-03T05:09:00.000+01:002009-01-03T05:09:00.000+01:00What about treatments that do have a positive effe...What about treatments that do have a positive effect on some... you mentioned devices in your list and a device has helped my son (Fluency Master). They were wrong to imply in their video the significant improvement. The results, when my son stopped all other treatments (medication that was VERY effective, but mood side effects and energy side effects led him to quit), the Fluency Master has given him a way to break through the worst stuttering and has ended all the secondary movements that were really noticeable. It seems that stuttering, for him, would be more difficult to deal with, without this aid. So who decides what advertisers to sanction or exclude?<BR/>LynneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-70589109292569958512009-01-02T23:13:00.000+01:002009-01-02T23:13:00.000+01:00Mark,I just had a look at your website, and you wr...Mark,<BR/><BR/>I just had a look at your website, and you write: "By the end of the first week you can be Stutter-Free in the clinic." The statement is strictly speaking not wrong. Yes, you can be stutter-free in the clinic. But is it not a bit misleading. We all know that all half-serious treatment produce stutter-free speech in the clinic, but the real issue is long-term???<BR/><BR/>The evidence is NOT out there. In theory, you are right in that we should look at scientific efficacy studies, but unfortunately they are not very reliable. I looked at some very closely, i.e. I actually read the papers line by line and did some statistical calculations. For example, the so-called Lidcombe random control trial, and it is deeply flawed.<BR/><BR/>Not saying you should not do Lidcombe with kids, but there is still no good evidence for long-term sucess.<BR/><BR/>TomTom Weidighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-62043622901137319332009-01-02T21:52:00.000+01:002009-01-02T21:52:00.000+01:00Another suggestion...Educate the consumer by resea...Another suggestion...<BR/><BR/>Educate the consumer by researching scientific efficacy studies of different treatments for stuttering. They can be found on the internet at sites such as PubMed by entering terms such as stuttering; stuttering treatments etc. Then following up on all the studies done to show whether a particular approach has been shown in peer reviewed scientific journals to be effective and with which population.<BR/><BR/>The evidence is out there. We owe it to ourselves to find the objective research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com