29 Jan 2018
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Children & Teens Who Stutter (Ep. 639)
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Jane Harley joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) For Children & Teens Who Stutter.
Ms. Harley is asked about her one day ACT workshop in Boston, March 9-10 in Boston, sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation.
Jane Harley is a registered Speech and Language Therapist and Clinical Lead at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, London, UK. She also holds a Masters in Psychological Counselling. Over the last 20 years she has written about the use of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) in working with people who stutter.
21 Feb 2018
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Stuttering Treatment (Ep. 640)
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Dr. Jennifer Chesters joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her research on transcranial direct current stimulation in stuttering treatment. Chester and colleagues current study on this topic is available at no charge.
Jennifer Chesters, MA, MSc, DPhil, is a neuroscience researcher and speech and language therapist at the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology. Dr. Chesters is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a team led by Kate Watkins that is investigating the neural basis of stuttering using a range of brain imaging and stimulation techniques. Dr. Chesters is first author on the recently published study “Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter” in the BRAIN: A Journal of Neurology.