Early intervention may be helpful for stuttering</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Early intervention may be helpful for stuttering"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Early,intervention,may,be,helpful,for,stuttering"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">29-09-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Early intervention may be helpful for stuttering</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_XQm5sWKWNCvtvFzlqC6E_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Queensland, Australia (Medscape): Stuttering should be treated in the preschool years, primarily because it becomes less tractable as children get older," write Mark Jones, MD, from the University of Queensland in Australia, and colleagues. "Once stuttering becomes chronic, communication can be severely impaired, with devastating social, emotional, educational, and vocational effects. Several treatments for early stuttering are currently available, but only one, the Lidcombe programme, has been studied with phase I and II clinical trials." <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/htRL0KrDrK0F580Gvas0EB " target="blank">mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/htRL0KrDrK0F580Gvas0EB </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show