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Date/Time
April 6, 20248:30 am – 4:00 pm
Presented by: Gregory Snyder, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Date: Saturday, April 6th, 2024
Location: Virtual Conference via Zoom Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EST
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Course Description:
This course is designed to demystify stuttering, and provide SLPs with clear, targeted, effective, and executable assessment and treatment strategies across the patient’s lifespan. Quietly within professional circles, countless SLPs have shared their insecurities in treating stuttering, often citing unfamiliarity with any clear and effective assessment strategies, or how to leverage assessment data to create customized and achievable treatment objectives and meaningful treatment activities. There have been many recent and significant advancements in our understanding of stuttering via the genetic and neurological data. Unfortunately, these data continue to fly largely under the discipline’s radar, even though they should force us to hit the metaphorical “reset” button on how we conceptualize, assess, and treat the disease. Recognition of these recent developments liberated the discipline to recategorize stuttering as a chronic disease within the central nervous system, where compensatory multimodal stuttering behaviors represent the body’s attempt to hack itself (including the brain) back into forward flowing gestural production. This fundamental change in how stuttering is conceptualized results in exciting new insights in effective stuttering assessment and optimized treatment strategies. This presentation will cover enough of the science of stuttering to provide SLPs with clear understanding of the disease and evidence-based treatment rationale. The vast majority of the course will focus on training SLPs in simple, practical, and effective assessment and treatment strategies across the lifespan. It is our goal that SLPs will leave this course with hope, confidence, and a clear understanding of stuttering, along with practical and executable strategies to effectively assess and treat stuttering across the lifespan.