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DVD: TOOLS FOR SUCCESS: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY TASTER, Frances Cook & Willie Botterill. Highlights from a workshop run by the authors providing valuable insights into working with the cognitive aspects of stuttering. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2009. View an extract on the SFA website.

DVD: STUTTERING: BASIC CLINICAL SKILLS, Stuttering Foundation. Demonstrates speech management strategies to help work effectively with both children and adults who stammer. 2007, 128 minutes.

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DVD: TOM'S STORY: THE LIDCOMBE PROGRAM OF EARLY STUTTERING INTERVENTION, Australian Stuttering Research Centre. This 20 minute film is suitable for parents and speech and language therapists, although it is not intended to be used for training purposes. It provides an introduction to the way that the Lidcombe Program is used with pre-school children. It includes contributions by Mark Onslow, Director of the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, Vanessa Harris, a practicising Speech Pathologist, and Lucy, the mother of a pre-school aged child. 2007. (NTSC format - might not play in all DVD players.)

DVD: THE SCHOOL CLINICIAN: WAYS TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE, Peter Ramig. This 84-minute DVD is designed to be an ideal tool for clinicians who work with the school-age child who stammers. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2005.

DVD: DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH ATTITUDES AND EMOTIONS, by Kristin A. Chmela. Designed to help clinicians who work with school-age children who stammer. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2005.

DVD: STUTTERING INTERVENTION FOR TEENS, by Patricia Zebrowski. This 90-minute DVD is particularly aimed at the clinician dealing with adolescents and includes information about motor and mental training, plus a discussion of emotions related to stammering at this age. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2005.

VIDEO: WORKING WITH PRESCHOOLERS WHO STUTTER: SUCCESSFUL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES. Featuring Kristin Chmela, the video offers practical strategies for working with young children. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2004. 1 hour 45 minutes.

VIDEO: STUTTERING IN THE FIRST YEARS OF LIFE. (16 minutes, colour.) This Australian video features the role of parents in therapy, current theories regarding the cause of stuttering, and common misconceptions about stuttering. Review.

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VIDEO: THE SCHOOL AGE CHILD WHO STUTTERS. A videotape featuring Kristin Chmela in collaboration with Nina Reardon for clinicians who work with the school age child who stutters. Stuttering Foundation of America, 1997-8. Review.

DVD: ADULT STUTTERING THERAPY, Charles Van Riper. This single DVD, over 6 hours long, reproduces all of Van Riper's classic series of 9 videotapes (below) on this subject. They depict the management of stammering from the evaluation interview, through 7 therapy sessions, to both one-year and 20-year follow-up. Stuttering Foundation of America, 2005.

VIDEO: ADULT STUTTERING THERAPY - PART 1. (black and white.) Charles Van Riper conducting a block modification therapy course with a young adult client. Diagnostic Interview (28 minutes), identification (47 minutes), desensitisation (49 minutes), Variations (44 minutes). Available as 1 tape, or individual parts available as separate tapes.

VIDEO: ADULTS STUTTERING THERAPY - PART 2. (black and white.) Charles Van Riper conducting a block modification therapy course with a young adult client. Modification/cancellation (42 minutes), modification/monitoring (52 minutes), stabilisation (47 minutes), one year later (30 minutes). Available as 1 tape, or individual parts available as separate tapes.

VIDEO: ADULT STUTTERING THERAPY- A TWENTY YEAR FOLLOW UP WITH JEFF. 20 years since the Van Riper tapes were made, Barry Guitar looks at how Jeff is doing, and an analysis of the therapy. Stuttering Foundation of America 1995.

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VIDEO: MESSAGE TO A STUTTERER. (36 minutes, black and white and colour.) A documentary tribute to eminent American speech pathologist Joseph Sheehan, comprising archive footage of research, experimentation, lectures and TV appearances outlining avoidance reduction therapy. Review.

VIDEO: CRY WOLF - IMAGES OF CHILDREN WHO STUTTER. (28 minutes, colour.) This Danish film shows a group of 9-13 year olds meeting weekly with a speech therapist who is helping them "come to terms" with stammering.

CD ROM: GCSE ENGLISH ORAL WORK: TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR PUPILS WHO STAMMER, British Stammering Association (see education project).

CD ROM: ENGLISH ORAL WORK FROM S1 TO S4: TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR PUPILS WHO STAMMER: SCOTTISH SECONDARY SCHOOL VERSION, British Stammering Association (see education project).

More videos under Audio cassettes and videos - general and Children, Parents and Teachers. There is also a selection of BBC and other network programmes on stammering available to view at the BSA office; all inquiries to the librarian.