Development of the mentor training program by the people who stutter for the adolescents who stutter.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13248
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Hiroaki Kobayashi 金沢大学, 学校教育系, 教授 (50334024)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 坂田 善政 国立障害者リハビリテーションセンター(研究所), その他部局等, 学院教官(併任研究所) (20616461)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 吃音 / 中高生 / 青年 / メンター / 特別支援教育 / セルフヘルプ・グループ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of current research is to develop a program to train mentors (trusted peer consultants) for the adolescents who stutter. We conducted the following four studies. 1) the literature research and field survey which focused peer support for parent of children who suffer from developmental disorders by "parent mentors" and peer support for adolescents who stutter by adult who stutter. 2) The questionnaire survey on the peer-consultation to people who stutter targeted 85 adults who stutter. 3) The questionnaire survey on the consultation to adults who stutter targeted 244 parents of children who stutter. 4) Trial of seminar of the mentor training course targeting 7 adult people with stuttering. Based on these studies, we developed the mentor training program by the people who stutter for the adolescents who stutter.

Free Research Field

特別支援教育