17 Jun 2015
A Sea Change May Be Coming for Defining Passing as Fluent and Covert Stuttering (Ep. 520)
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Walter Manning joins Christopher Constantino to discuss their upcoming presentations at the International Fluency Association’s World Congress which will be held in Portugal, July 6-8 (pre and post conference workshops take place July 4th, 5th and 9th). Presentations discussed include Covert Stuttering: A Foucauldian Analysis, Origin and Pawn Calculator: Determining Agency to Improve Treatment outcomes and Management of Stuttering with Adolescents and Adults. Other topics include the common factors model, the therapeutic alliance and Dr. Manning’s comment that Mr. Costantino’s research on passing as fluent may cause a sea change in how the field defines interiorized/covert stuttering.
Walter Manning, Ph.D., is a person who stutter and a professor in the School of Communication Sciences at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a board certified specialist in fluency disorders, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and has published more than 100 articles in a variety of professional journals. The third edition of Dr. Manning’s textbook, Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders, was published in 2010.
Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter. Chris will be hosting some StutterTalk episodes this summer from the International Fluency Association’s World Congress in Portugal, July 6-8.
27 May 2018
PhD Forum for Doctoral Students in Stuttering Research (Ep. 643)
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Kerianne Druker and Dr. Tom Weidig join Peter Reitzes to discuss the Research & Publication Committee of the International Fluency Association (IFA) and the upcoming Joint World Congress.
Tom and Kerriane are asked about the PhD Forum for doctoral students in stuttering research they are starting up with the IFA, presentations they are looking forward to at the World Congress, and much more. To learn more about the PhD Forum, contact phdnetwork@theIFA.org
One World, Many Voices: Science and Community is the Inaugural Joint World Congress of the International Cluttering Association
(ICA), International Fluency Association (IFA) and International Stuttering Association (ISA), with local host organizations the Japan Society of Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders and the Japanese Stuttering Genyukai Organization. This event will be held in Hiroshima, Japan, from July 13th-16th, 2018.
Kerianne Druker resides in Australia. She is a speech language pathologist and PhD student at Curtin University. Mrs. Druker is a member of the Research & Publication Committee of the International Fluency Association (IFA).
Dr. Tom Weidig resides in Luxembourg. He is co-chair of the International Fluency Association’s Research & Publication Committee and the brain behind the popular and widely read Stuttering Brain Blog.