Measuring Success

The Importance of Clinical Measurement in Stuttering Assessment and Treatment

• Clinical measurement helps quantify the impact of stuttering on clients, both behaviorally and non-behaviorally.
• Reference texts provide an overview of formal clinical assessments for stuttering adults and children.
• Telehealth assessments have been found to be comparable to in-clinic assessments in terms of time, results, and client satisfaction.
• Clinical measures establish a common language between clinicians and clients to communicate about stuttering severity and treatment progress.
• Stuttering treatments require clear treatment goals, which can be conveyed to clients using clinical measurements.
• Clinical measurement is essential for treatment accountability and documenting improvements and hours of funded treatment required.
• Progress towards treatment goals needs to be assessed and documented using clinical measures.
• Clinical measurement can assist in exploring and fixing treatment progress issues.
• Maintenance of treatment gains is crucial, and clinical measurement can be used to monitor post-treatment progress and prevent relapse.
• Stuttering severity is variable and changes across everyday situations, making it necessary for clinicians to use clinical measurement to keep track of day-to-day variations.
• Clinicians may ask clients to measure stuttering severity in daily situations to explore whether systematic improvement is occurring.
• Clinical measurement is an indispensable tool in stuttering assessment and treatment, providing quantifiable data to inform treatment decisions and track progress.