SLP-Seminars on Stuttering and Cluttering Taught by
Board-Certified Specialists in Fluency Disorders
Advanced techniques to assess children and adolescents who stutter (Tellis)
Introduces advanced procedures in stuttering assessment. Reviews definitions, prevalence and incidence, risk factors, and conditions that increase or decrease stuttering, and differences between stuttering and normal disfluencies. Presents in-depth assessment procedures, including examples of detailed interview questions and a sample diagnostic report that clinicians can use as a template during IEP meetings. Participants learn about attitude scales as well as accurate methods of obtaining and analyzing speech samples and adaptation tasks. The workshop ends with information about contacting a fluency specialist. This seminar includes several 1-2 minute video clips that provide demonstrations of each aspect of stuttering assessment. There will be several breakout sessions to practice assessment procedures.
Assessing the Entire Stuttering Disorder: From Fluency to Adverse Impact (Yaruss)
This workshop helps clinicians develop the skills they need to accurately assess the entirety of the stuttering disorder, including the frequency and nature of observable stuttering behaviors, the reactions of the child and his environment to stuttering, and the adverse educational impact that results from stuttering. Based on frameworks and measurement tools used worldwide, this workshop helps clinicians ensure that they are recommending the right treatment at the right time for the right children - and this leads to greater success in treatment.
Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Approach (Yaruss)
(available in both Preschool and School-age Versions)
Builds on the Practical Treatment Strategies program with more advanced training on key issues facing children who stutter and their families, and a focus on following the principles of evidence-based practice. The preschool version reviews nearly 30 challenging scenarios commonly faced by clinicians working with preschool children who stutter and their families. The focus is on helping clinicians know what to say and what to do in order to help children improve their fluency and their communication skills. The school-age version includes nearly 15 video samples of specific treatment activities that help children speak more easily, reduce the sevrerity of their stuttering, minimize their own (and other people's) negative reactions to stuttering, reduce the effects of bullying and teasing, and ensure successful communication in academic and social settings. Both workshops include 10 concrete treatment goals that clinicians can immediately incorporate in their treatment plans, as well as more than 25 specific treatment activities that can be directly utilized in daily clinical practice.
Managing cluttering in the school-age child: From diagnosis to carryover (Scaler Scott)
This session will begin by discussing the current working definition of cluttering. Next the basics of assessment and differential diagnosis of cluttering from other communication disorders will be covered. Strategies for teasing out symptoms to achieve differential diagnosis, and planning and goal writing for appropriate targets of root fluency issues will be discussed. A problem-solving based approach to accurately pinpointing fluency concerns, testing hypotheses in various settings and over time, will be presented. Treatment principles will be outlined, and will include strategies for managing cluttering with concomitant disorders, successful carryover techniques, and ways to motivate clients who lack awareness of cluttering. Specific approaches to treating multiple fluency disorders in the same client will be discussed.
Managing complex cases in fluency: Cluttering, atypical disfluencies, stuttering (Scaler Scott)
This seminar will begin with a discussion of the challenges of managing fluency disorders in clients of all ages. Definitions of overt vs. covert stuttering, avoidance/escape behaviors, cluttering, and atypical disfluencies will be presented. Strategies for teasing out symptoms to achieve differential diagnosis, and planning for appropriate targets of root fluency issues will be discussed.
A problem-solving based approach to accurately pinpointing fluency concerns, testing hypotheses in various settings and over time, will be presented. Specific approaches to treating multiple fluency disorders to in the same client and/or treating fluency concerns with concomitant disorders will be discussed.
Practical Treatment Strategies for Individuals Who Stutter (Yaruss)
(available in Preschool, School-age, and Adolescent/Adult Versions)
Detailed, clinically focused programs that help speech-language pathologists improve their competence and confidence for helping children who stutter. Workshops can focus on preschoolers and their families, school-age children, or adolescents and adults/em> (or any combination of ages group). Presentations are based on comprehensive, data-based frameworks to ensure that clinicians provide evidence-based treatment for all aspects of the stuttering disorder. The preschool workshop includes key information about incorporating parents into treatment -- and, what to do if you don't have access to the parents. The school-age workshop addresses critical topics such as enhancing motivation, minimizing bullying and teasing, and working with children with concomitant disorders. Workshops for older clients address other key issues in therapy, including generalization, minimizing relapse, and succeeding in school and in the workplace. Workshops include concrete, IEP-ready treatment goals and real-world activities that can be immediately applied in therapy sessions.
Successful Strategies to Treat Stuttering: from Preschool to Adulthood (Tellis)
A comprehensive program covering a wide range of topics in treatment of stuttering, including indirect, direct, and operant treatment methods, fluency shaping and stuttering modification techniques, and special topics such as electronic devices and support groups. Includes several 1-2 minute video clips that provide demonstrations of each aspect of stuttering treatment.
21st century stuttering therapy: Digital technologies to educate and motivate school-aged children (Raj)
In this digital age, speech-language pathologists who provide therapy to school-aged children who stutter have access to numerous technologies to educate and motivate their clients. Specifically, mobile and Internet-based technologies can be used as a valid and relevant way to provide meaningful therapy and support to those who stutter. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss and demonstrate these modern technologies to help grow not only the digital competencies of practicing clinicians, but also increase their overall understanding of the assessment and treatment of stuttering.