17 Jul 2012
Gaining Confidence with the Stuttering Foundation (350)
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front: Vivian Sisskin, Dr. Lisa Scott, Jane Fraser, Dr. Joseph Donaher
Stuttering Foundation presenters Dr. Joseph Donaher and Vivian Sisskin and workshop participants join Peter Reitzes to discuss the Foundation’s weeklong workshop for speech-language pathologists, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, held this past week in Philadelphia.
Presenters Donaher and Sisskin are joined by workshop participants Beth Brant, Gail Dunn and Amanda Wells. Participants discuss the confidence, knowledge and skills they gained. Participants also discuss their great appreciation for the Foundation’s focus on current research and evidence and their problem solving approach to individualized speech therapy.
JOSEPH DONAHER, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, coordinates the Stuttering Program at the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders and is the presenter in the Stuttering Foundation’s new film titled ADHD & Children Who Stutter.
VIVIAN SISSKIN, M.S., CCC-SLP, is an instructor and clinical supervisor in the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders.
Speech-language pathologists interested in attending a Stuttering Foundation workshop, click here. People who stutter looking for a speech-language pathologist, check out the Foundation’s referral list.
If you have attended a Stuttering Foundation workshop and want to stay in touch with other participants, check out this SFAWorkshopAlumni Yahoo group administered by past StutterTalk guest Voon Pang.
8 Jan 2014
ADHD and Stuttering (Ep. 436)
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Joseph Donaher, Ph.D joins Peter Reitzes to discuss ADHD and stuttering.
StutterTalk is excited to announce that this StutterTalk episode or course will be available for 0.10 CEUs for approximately six months, free of charge, through the National Stuttering Association. For complete details regarding the continuing education units being offered by the National Stuttering Association, go to the National Stuttering Association’s CEU page.
Take the CEU Test Here(expired June 15, 2014)Show/Course Notes:
Title: ADHD and Stuttering
Objectives: At the conclusion of the program, the learner shall be able to:
Dr. Donaher was asked to analyze and discuss the disfluencies heard in this video featuring a 12 year old child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Presenter Bio — Joseph Donaher, Ph.D., is the Academic and Research Program Director of the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Donaher is an Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at The University of Pennsylvania. He is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders (Board Certified Specialist-Fluency, or BCS-F) and the editor of Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Dr. Donaher is the chair of the Research and Publications Committee of The International Fluency Association. His clinical and research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of school-age children who stutter.More