Virtual Learning
Virtual Learning by The Stuttering Foundation is an online series of free, interactive workshops with a variety of offerings for speech-language pathologists, parents, and individuals who stutter.
The series includes monthly offerings ranging from clinical training opportunities, to parent education, to a platform for people who stutter of all ages to share their stories. Sessions are moderated by many of the world’s leading clinicians, researchers, and self-help advocates — bringing learning and collaboration to you.
What Do Children and Their Parents Want From Therapy and How Can We Ensure We Are Meeting Their Needs and Not Just Following Our Own Agenda?
Speaker: Sharon Millard, Ph.D., RegMRCSLT, RegHCPC, European Fluency Specialist, Research Lead at the Michael Palin Centre
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Time: Noon to 1:15 PM Eastern Time
Description: Sharon will review research that informs us about what school-aged children and parents hope to gain through therapy and consider the implications for therapy. She will discuss Solution Focused Brief Therapy as an approach to exploring hopes and expectations so that we can work together towards goals and outcomes that are relevant and meaningful to individual clients. While the focus will be on school-aged children who stutter, the principles of working will be relevant for other ages and client groups.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Be able to describe the range of outcomes that children and parents want to gain from therapy
- Understand the importance of finding out an individual’s hopes and expectations
- Be able to describe one way of exploring individual priorities
- Be able to explain the rationale for a holistic and individualized approach to therapy
Details:
- Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists and students
- There is no fee for this event.
*This course is not eligible for CEUs at this time
Please register if available for the live event only. A recording may be available at a later date on our streaming site for a small fee.
Bio: Sharon Millard, Ph.D., RegHCPC, MRCSLT is the Research Lead at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering in London. Sharon is the author of the Palin Parent Rating Scales and her most recent research has focused on therapy with school-aged children and the role of temperament in stuttering. She is a European Stuttering Specialist, Co-Chair of the Oxford Stuttering and Cluttering Research Conference and member of the Journal of Fluency Disorders editorial team.
Disclosures:
Non-financial: None
Financial: None