It is an intensive interval therapy program for people who
stutter. First conducted in 1987 Germany, this therapy program was named after
Van Riper from whom it took several of its basic underlying principles of
treatment.
It is called the Van Riper Program as Intensive Interval
Therapy. It is called interval because of its block schedule system—a five-day
duration of segments with six to eight weeks between the segments. It is called
intensive because of its long period of session during segments—about eight
hours a day.
The basic principles of this program involve the preference
and utilization of stuttering modification approach over a fluency shaping
approach. It also considers motivation and relapse as major difficulties in
many adult stuttering therapies. In addition, it believes that therapist plays
a lesser role in most adult stuttering therapies.
The Van Riper Program is done in a group—about 12 patients
with two therapists. This is often conducted in a church-run boarding house. In
Germany, the therapists include Andreas Starke, together with Angelika Engert
and Bernd Koppenhagen.
There are five weeks overall in the process. The first week
focuses on identification. The two major goals in this initial week are
improving the understanding of each patient’s stuttering and making patients
understand the basic concepts of speech production. This segment involves a
video recording of each patient and recorded ten-minute conversational speech
and five-minute reading. This is followed by lectures on speech production and
analysis of the video recordings.
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