{{ (moduleVm.actions && moduleVm.changeStatus) ? moduleVm.status : '' }} Understanding the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering Can Improve Stuttering Therapy
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Description
Note: ASHA CEUs cannot be reported to ASHA unless your ASHA member number is included in your profile.This program addresses how speech-language pathologists can improve their therapy and interactions with people who stutter by understanding the speakers' lived experience of stuttering. The program will include information about a broad range of negative sequelae that may be related to living life as a person who stutters. Therapeutic approaches for adults who stutter will be reviewed along with information of how the speech/language pathologist could help to alleviate the negative sequela and improve a person's overall experience of stuttering.
Accreditation
This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs
(Intermediate Level, Professional Area)
Purpose of Activity
To gain knowledge about how speech-language pathologists can improve their therapy and interactions with people who stutter by understanding the speakers' lived experience of stuttering.Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:
- Identify the broad range of negative sequelae that may be related to living life as a person who stutters.
- Summarize therapeutic approaches for adults who stutter.
- Select ways in which the speech/language pathologist can help to alleviate the negative sequela and improve a person's overall experience of stuttering.
Disclosures
Author Disclosure: J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA and his wife are both co-authors of the trademarked product OASES which is cited in this article. They are also the co-owners and major stockholders of Stuttering Therapy Resources, Inc. which published the OASES. Dr. Yaruss disclosed that neither he nor his wife received any payment related to the use of the OASES in the studies conducted for this article.
Seth E. Tichenor, PhD, CCC-SLP
Financial: Dr. Seth E. Tichenor has no financial relationships to disclose.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Seth E. Tichenor is a person who stutters, a Speech-Language Pathologist, and an Assistant Professor at Duquesne University. His primary research interests include better understanding and predicting individual differences in the experience of stuttering (stammering), understanding how adverse impact related to the condition develops, and determining how moments of stuttering occur in speech.
Caryn Herring, MS, CCC-SLP
Financial: Caryn Herring has no financial relationships to disclose.
Nonfinancial: Caryn Herring is a person who stutters, speech-language pathologist, and a doctoral student at Michigan State University. Caryn?s research interests include the process of desensitization for people who stutter and the role of voluntary stuttering. She co-hosts the StutterTalk B-Team and is on the board of directors of Friends ? The National Association of Young People Who Stutter.
J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA
Financial: Dr. J. Scott Yaruss is co-owner of Stuttering Therapy Resources, which published the OASES. He is co-author of the OASES. He generally receives royalty for the use of the OASES by other people, but he did not receive royalties for any of the studies that he conducted involving the OASES that are cited in this article.
Nonfinancial: Dr. J. Scott Yaruss is a Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University. Dr. Yaruss conducts research on the experience of stuttering. His wife is also a co-owner of Stuttering Therapy Resources, though she did not receive any compensation related to the studies in which he used the OASES that are in this article.
Credits:
- ASHA 0.1 CEU