Stutter Stories

Stutter Stories

Presenters

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  Caryn Herring

  M.S., CCC-SLP

  Caryn Herring, M.S., CCC-SLP is a person who stutters, a speech-language pathologist, and a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Her research interests include the process of desensitization, exposure therapy, and the impact of voluntary stuttering. She is involved in stuttering support organizations as a co-host of the podcast: StutterTalk and the Chairperson of Friends – The National Association of Young People Who Stutter.

Learning Objectives

Describe three ways that stuttering may impact a person's life.

Describe two consequences of reinforcing fluency strategies.

Explain how the experience of stuttering is more than observable disfluencies.

Agenda

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction
10 minutes	Description of stuttering, covert stuttering, the impact of early therapy, being ready to make a change, and coping during school-age years
10 minutes	Description of stuttering, the long-term impact of being covert, finding support, and therapy during adulthood
5 minutes	Effective communication, changes over time

Disclosures

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Caryn Herring is receiving compensation from Bright Ideas Media for this presentation.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Caryn Herring is the Chairperson of Friends - The National Association of Young People Who Stutter.
Course - Content	Caryn Herring has no relevant content information to disclose.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and Stuttering Therapy Resources Inc.

ASHA

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area

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