Fluency Assessment and Intervention Resource (FLAIR)

Here is a collection of high-interest activities and games

that you can use to build fluency in children with stuttering problems. Students learn the “feel of slow speech” as they practice easy movements of the articulators during speech production. Special features include easy-to-use tasks for assessing fluency, high-interest lessons, a short story audio CD with lively songs that reinforce “easy speech,” and a full-color game board.

The program was developed based on a review of research- based therapy approaches that have been found to be effective in improving fluency. Strategies to promote forward-flowing speech and a reduction in speaking rate serve as a basis for many of the lessons. FLAIR is designed to improve self-monitoring of speech and to promote transfer to real-life situations by engaging the support of parents, teachers, and others. Key components of the approach are the following:

• Rate reduction
• Forward-moving speech
• Self-monitoring
• Establishing an ideal speaking rate • Facilitating transfer

The book offers a comprehensive collection of reproducible assessment tools including the Classroom Fluency Questionnaire, Fluency Questionnaire for Parents, Disfluency Analysis form, Pragmatic Assessment of Fluency, and instruments for the direct assessment of fluency.

The FLAIR manual is packed with ready-to-use listening time activities, short stories, role-playing activities, and game activities that help children communicate fluently during social interactions.

Assessment Procedures - FLAIR assessment includes a Fluency Questionnaire for Parents, Classroom Fluency Questionnaire, Pragmatic Assessment of Fluency, and a Disfluency Analysis Form. Specific strategies for conducting assessments are included.

Intervention Activities

• Unit 1 - Establishing Slow and Steady Speech
• Unit 2 - Reinforcing Slow and Steady Speech in Daily Communication Interactions
• Unit 3 - Establishing the Child's BEST SPEECH
• Unit 4 - Reinforcing the Child's BEST SPEECH
• Unit 5 - Stabilizing the Child's BEST SPEECH
• Unit 6 - Transfer and Maintenance
• Unit 7- Follow-Up Evaluations and Review Sessions

Listening Time and Story Time activities are included in many of the lessons. Question and answer games, situational role playing, peer conversations, and other activities maintain children's interests and develop important language skills as children work on fluency goals.

Table of Contents

The complete kit includes:

• FLAIR activity manual
• FLAIR Story Book (short story manual)
• full-colour game board, spinner, playing pieces
• audio CD.