Family Communication Skills Therapy

Family Communication Skills Therapy is a combined indirect and direct treatment approach for children who stutter (aged seven to fourteen years) and their families. This approach focuses on developing the family’s awareness of communication skills and helping the family make changes that will support the child’s fluency. Family Communication Skills Therapy also helps the child who stutters develop awareness of communication skills and seeks to increase his or her communication confidence. This approach encourages responsibility by involving the child in the decision making and goal setting process. Working with the child and his/her family also sets the foundation for further speech management work if needed.

Examples of topics covered in Family Communication Skills Therapy include:

  • Eye Contact

  • Listening

  • Turn Taking

  • Praise and Confidence Building

  • Problem Solving 

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This therapy can potentially be used to treat the following:

Cluttering

Cluttering is a disruption in speech fluency but is different than stuttering.

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Fluency

When a person stutters, we sometimes say that their speech is “dysfluent” because the flow of speech is interrupted.

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Stuttering

When a person stutters, we sometimes say that their speech is “dysfluent” because the flow of speech is interrupted.

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