ABSTRACT
The G. Rileys model encourages the therapist systematically to incorporate other treatment approaches into their therapy with children who stutter. Children are much less likely to engage in a struggle for power with someone outside the family, but unless this is well understood by parents and professionals it can be demoralising and frustrating for all. The component model encourages the therapist to look for similarities and differences between disfluent children and their more fluent peers. Parenthood can generate a great deal of anxiety, especially in a culture where families are small and adults may have very little day-to-day experience of young children prior to having their own. During the years of active parenting, most constructs require frequent adjustment if they are to help the parents make sense of themselves and their developing children. Babies and young children rely upon non-verbal constructs to make sense of their world and so they test out their constructions behaviourally.
