Using Stories to Teach Fluency Strategies to Young Children

I loved this idea! This book is a graet way to incorporate fluency strategies while at the same time working on pragmatic skills. In everyday life we are always in a rush, to speak rapidly and we often don't give people enough time to finish their thoughts and ideas. This book seemed to be very helpful in reducing the rate of speech while teaching techniques in pausing and phrasing. Also the pictures that are used are very animating and really keep a child involved instead of working with an SLP just on repetitions of pausing and phrasing techniques. These strategies will help kids to look at other things they may read or mark in their reading when they get in older grades such as presentations or class projects. It's a great way to help many children boost their self confidence and be home active at home and in the school environment.

My questions were, what age level did the author think this book was appropriate for? and also did the author have any other books with different characters or story lines. The author said this book was apporpirate for ages 2-8. The author is working on other stories that will target negative reactions of stuttering, another that target reduced tension and many other topics. They are available on mcspeechbooks.com