Lidcombe News Edition 31st - Montreal Fluency

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The Lidcombe Link Day for the North West is on Tuesday 7th October: 1.00 for a 1.30 start. It will be held at Handforth Clinic, Wilmslow Road, Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 3HL. We will be discussing tricky cases and a journal article. For further information, please email: Louise.Tweedie@echeshire-tr.nwest.nhs.uk or tel. 01625 661983 COURSES AND EVENTS There are several courses being run in the UK this year but they are not all open to people outside the departments running them, or else they are already full. I am therefore only in a position to advertise those departmentally based ones that still have places to sell, and the national ones. The next course advertising places is in SE London. It is being held at Catford on Monday and Tuesday, July 28 th and 29 th 2008, hosted by Lewisham Children and Young People's SLT Service. For further information contact Dorett Davis on email: dorett.davis@lewishampct.nhs.uk Tel. 020 7138 1385. The workshop is being presented by Rosemarie Hayhow and Mary Kingston. Norwich is holding its annual national workshop on Monday and Tuesday, October 13 th and 14 th 2008, at the Assembly Rooms, in the centre of the city. Contact Sally Wynne on email: robertsallywynne@boltblue.com for a flyer or telephone 01603 425241 if you wish to speak to her personally. The course is being presented by Mary Kingston and Sally Wynne. Apart from this, and a workshop in Spain to be presented by Rosemarie Hayhow and Mary Kingston in October 2008, there is nothing definite until March 2009 when the annual national training course in London will once again be held at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. No dates have as yet been fixed but do contact Sally Wynne on robertsallywynne@boltblue.com if you would like the flyer when it comes out. 2
This is the first of three articles in this edition of Lidcombe News which will be looking at the introduction of Lidcombe Training workshops over the last ten years. We will start with the UK as we have the longest record of these training courses and this year heralds our tenth anniversary. The Introduction of Lidcombe training in the United Kingdom - some reflections By Mary Kingston, Norfolk Community Healthcare It hardly seems possible that it is twelve years (1996) since Mark Onslow and Sue O’Brian made their whistle stop tour of the United Kingdom to present the new and radical approach to the treatment of young children who stutter known as the Lidcombe Program (LP). I attended one of their sessions- in Wolverhampton- and knew at once that I had found something for which I had been looking for some time. I had long wanted a way of working directly with a child’s speech but without teaching a novel speech pattern, had wanted to involve and empower the parents and the children themselves, and had also felt the need for some measures of outcome. Others however were not so sure and a healthy debate ensued around what was the safest and most correct way to treat pre-schoolers who stuttered. Some of these concerns which were published the following year are discussed in the European Journal of Disorders of Communication (1997) and give a flavour of the thinking at that time. I for my part set about finding a way to get myself trained and, following a business plan, which with the help of my department head we presented to my health Trust in Norfolk, I was eventually granted funds to go to Australia. The reason the health service was prepared to fund me, I discovered, was that the research already carried out on the programme was of such a high standard that the Trust was prepared to take the risk with public funds and send me on my way. I was not, I soon realised, the only one interested enough in this programme to want to make the trip. Rosemarie Hayhow had attended a full day course that Mark and Sue ran in Bristol. This gave her a good enough understanding of the approach to use it with two five year old children who had previously received indirect therapy but continued to stutter. It worked very well for these children and so Rosemarie applied for a British Telecom bursary to visit Australia and learn more about the LP. Rebecca Pitt (now Ledzion) from London was also keen to receive the training. I found that Rosemarie and I has similar reasons for wanting some additional methods of treating stuttering, and that Rebecca, being Australian herself and having some previous experience of the LP, was equally like-minded in this respect. The story of our time there has been documented in the British Stammering Association’s magazine “Speaking Out” (1997). On our return we all implemented the LP in our clinics, with much success, and as we found there was a demand for training from other UK clinicians we invited Sue O’Brian over to London, Norwich and Bristol, to run three training courses in January 1998.As the LP was still being fiercely (and emotionally) debated over here, Sue must have felt she was entering the lion’s den...but 3
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