Next Course Dates:Course fee £375.
- 9-13 September 2002 (with follow-ups on 21-22 Sept and 5-6 Oct)
Participants often funded by their local health authority/board or GP fund holder. Alternatively people may wish to self fund. Places available. Contact details.
This intensive course consists of five consecutive days (Monday to Friday) and two weekends, held at fairly short intervals after the initial block of therapy. The aim is to provide a course which spans a four week period, offering an effective opportunity to focus on stammering, while involving a minimum amount of time away from personal and work commitments. Participants will be encouraged to view the breaks as an integral part of the programme during which to work on personal aims. A further follow-up day will be held approximately two months after the second weekend at a date to be negotiated with participants.
The course programme combines working directly with stammering and attending to participants feelings and reactions to their speech. The approach to therapy will be based on avoidance reduction and block modification therapy.
The course aims to enable participants to:
The advantages of intensive therapy for stammering are that it enables participants to:
Jan Anderson is the course therapist. She co-ran intensive courses for adults who stammer at the City Lit in London from 1987 - 1993. Since moving to Edinburgh in 1993 she has worked in independent practice and offered weekly evening groups. This is her sixth intensive course at the Royal Infirmary and she will be working with the group throughout the course.
Moira Little, Trust Lead Speech and Language Therapist (Adult Services), organises and oversees the course. She works with people who stammer as part of her caseload and runs a weekly evening group at the hospital.
The course will be held in the speech and language therapy department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. For a map and directions see the back page of this leaflet.
Referrals can be accepted from speech and language therapists throughout the country. Alternatively, if you stammer and are interested in the course, you are welcome to contact the speech and language therapy department directly.
Potential participants will be offered an initial interview, lasting up to an hour, with Jan Anderson. The aim of this is to discuss the person¹s needs and provide further information about the course so we can ensure that this will be an appropriate course of therapy.
Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, subject to suitability, which will be discussed at the initial interview.
In order to achieve lasting benefits from an intensive course of therapy adequate follow-up therapy is essential. Potential participants will only be accepted for the course where arrangements can be made for follow-up therapy. This will be discussed at initial interview.
The course fee is £275. Participants may be able to secure funding from their GP or Health Board. Alternatively, people may wish to self-fund. Please contact Moira Little for further information.
The Royal Infirmary is situated in Lauriston Place in the centre of Edinburgh.
Buses: Lauriston Place - Lothian 23, 27, 28, 29, 45, 47. Eastern Scottish C23.
Train: Waverley Station
Car: Public car parks in Chalmers Street and George Square.
If you would like to know more about the Edinburgh Intensive Course for Adults who Stammer, please contact:
Moira Littleor
Chief Speech and Language Therapist
Royal Infirmary
1 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh EH3 9YW
Tel: (0131) 536 2961
Jan Anderson
jan.anderson@ecosse.net
Tel: (0131) 229 8069