Anthony Sifuentes

Texas State is setting up a therapy program to assist adults who stutter.
Anthony Sifuentes has more in this Bobcat Update.

For two weeks in July, in the Health Professions Building, Farzan Irani, a Texas
State Communications Disorders Professor, and his staff of five graduate
students will work with adults to help them with stuttering. The staff will work
one-on-one with clients and recording the conversations. The team will also
observe each other's sessions through a two-way mirror in a dark room. The
sessions will be analyzed; speech samples will be measures; and day-to-day
changes will be recorded. Following two weeks of intensive therapy, the
participants will continue in the program for another ten months using Adobe
Connect Pro online.
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Irani says that therapy is not a cure, but rather a managing tool for
stuttering.
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Clinic Director Renee Wendell says she's looking forward to establishing the
program because it addresses an issue she feels is often over-looked.
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Irani and Wendell hope after the initial test run the program will expand to
assist adolescents and children. For Bobcat Update, I'm Anthony Sifuentes.