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Recently, staff from the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, The University of Sydney, toured universities and clinics in the UK to present lectures about this treatment. We were encouraged to write this paper because an independent survey showed that most speech and language therapists who attended the presentations were open to this treatment. Prior to and following that lecture tour, publications in the press and professional journals in the UK alluded to many positive features of the Lidcombe Programme, but also raised several issues about it. The purpose of this paper is to summarise the Lidcombe Programme and address the following criticisms of the treatment that were raised in the UK: (1) Stuttering is complex but the Lidcombe Programme is simple; (2) the Lidcombe Programme is not an operant treatment, but invokes positive changes in children's environments; (3) the Lidcombe Programme is harmful to children; and (4) the scientific evidence in support of the Lidcombe Programme is flawed. Each of these issues is addressed from logical, theoretical and empirical viewpoints.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Le Lidcombe Programme est un traitment qui agit directement dans le cos de b\u00e9gaiement pr\u00e9coce, et que les parents administrent \u00e0 leurs enfants dans le cadre linguistique quotitien. Ce traitement a \u00e9t\u00e9 mis au point au sein de l'Unit\u00e9 du B\u00e9gaiement du Service de Sant\u00e9 de Banktown \u00e0 Sydney, et dans l'Universit\u00e9 de Sydney. R\u00e9cemment des membres du Centre de Recherches sur le B\u00e9gaiement de l'Universit\u00e9 de Sydney ont fait une tourn\u00e9e d'Universit\u00e9s et de cliniques britanniques pour donner des conf\u00e9rences sur ce traitement. L'encouragement \u00e0 \u00e9crire cet article est venu du fait enquete ind\u00e9pendante a montre que la plupart des orthophonistes qui avaient assisti \u00e0 nos pr\u00e9sentations ont accueilli favorablement ce traitement. Avant et apris cette tourn\u00e9e de conf\u00e9rences, des publications dans la press et des revues professionnelles britanniques ont fait allusion aux nombreux aspects positifs du Lidcombe Programme mais aussi elles ont formul\u00e9 les critiques suivantes: (1) Le b\u00e9gaiement est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne complexe alors que le Lidcombe Programme est simple (2) Le Lidcombe Programme nest pas un traitement qui agit de luim\u011bme, mais il incite \u00e0 des changements positifs dans le cadre de vie des enfants, (3) Le Lidcombe Programme est pernicieux pour les enfants, et (4) les bases scientifiques qui confirment le Lidcombe Programme sont entach\u00e9es de d\u00e9fauts. Nous r\u00e9pondons \u00e0 chacune de ces critiques des points de vue logique, th\u00e9orique et empirique.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Das Lidcombe Programm ist eine Behandlungsmethode f\u00fcr junge Stotterer, die von Eltern in den Alltagssituationen iher Kinder angewandt werden kann. Die Behandlung wurde in der Stottererein\u2010heit des Bankstown Gesundheitszentrums, Sydney und in der Universit\u00e4t Sydney entwickelt. Vor kurzem haben Angestellte des australischen Forschungszentrums f\u00fcr Stottern der Universit\u00e4t Sydney mehrere Universit\u00e4ten und Kliniken im UK besucht, um Vortr\u00e4ge \u00fcber diese Behandlungsmethode zu halten. Wir wurden angehalten, diesen Aufsatz zu schreiben, weil eine unabhiingige Umfrage best\u00e4tigte, da\u03b2 die meisten Sprech\u2010Sprachtherapeuten, die unsere Vortr\u00e4ge h\u00f6rten, nachher der Methode positiv gegen\u00fcberstanden. Vor und nach der Vortragsreise deuteten Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen in der Presse und in Fachzeitschriften auf viele positive Aspektes des Lidcombe Programms hin, erhoben aber auch mehrere kritische Fragen. 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