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.

Cluttering: Expanding Your Evaluation and Treatment Horizons

Speaker: Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F; Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA

Date:  Friday, December 1^st, 2023

Time: 12:00 to 1:30 PM ET

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Description: Given the new information we are learning from people who clutter, modifications to existing assessment and treatment protocols are warranted. This workshop will cover the areas below and use case illustrations of principles.

1. Changes to the evaluation process to obtain a holistic picture of client needs
2. Understanding and ongoing assessment of readiness for change as applied to cluttering
3. Ways to decide upon treatment focus and timeline
4. Activities other than strategies to include in treatment

Details:

• Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Graduate Students, those with cluttering and their allies
• 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:  Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F is a speech-language pathologist, Board Certified Fluency Specialist, ASHA Fellow and Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University. Dr. Scaler Scott’s research and clinical interests include cluttering, atypical disfluencies and disfluency with concomitant diagnoses. She is author of Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses, a textbook and treatment manual focusing on understanding, evaluating and treating cluttering, stuttering, and atypical disfluencies along with concomitant disorders. She is also co-author of the Second Edition of the Source for Stuttering and Cluttering along with Glen Tellis.  Dr. Scaler Scott was the first Coordinator of the International Cluttering Association and the 2018 recipient of the Deso Weis Award for Excellence in the Field of Cluttering.