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“I think the RESTART DCM places much more importance on the emotional aspect than other DCM approaches.” - Marie - Christine Franken


ROTTERDAM : FOCUS ON PRESCHOOL CHILDREN


In July, the RESTART Demands and Capacities Model (DCM) based workshop was held for the first time for an international group of clinicians at Erasmus University Medical Center in beautiful Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop was led by co-instructors Marie- Christine Franken from the Erasmus MC, and Ellen Laroes from


Zuyd Hogeschool at Heerlen and private practice.


Fourteen clinicians from Australia, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russian Federation, and Singapore attended this 3-day workshop. Clinicians acquired an understanding of the DCM approach, its diagnostics and the treatment itself. The clinicians practiced how to train parents to decrease relevant motoric, linguistic, emotional and cognitive demands, thereby reducing communicative pressure on the child by teaching how to train parents to reduce their habitual speech rate and how to adapt the complexity level of the communication. Also, clinicians learned about increasing the child’s motoric, linguistic,


emotional and cognitive capacities for fluency and how these can be taught, for example, improving the child’s speech motor movements, or word-finding capacity.


By elaborating on all the


protocol steps, role playing, modeling, watching videos and lots of lively, open and critical discussions, the participants leſt Rotterdam with a thorough understanding of the DCM based treatment and the


The second, three day International RESTART-DCM workshop will be offered in Rotterdam July 26 - 28, 2017. Interested in participating? E-mail RestartDCM@erasmusmc.nl for more information.


ability to offer young stuttering children and their parents a choice in treatment, since both the direct (LP) and the indirect (DCM based) can be recommended as shown by the RESTART study.


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