J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA, is a professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University. A board-certified Specialist in Fluency Disorders, Yaruss has given more than 700 workshops and presentations in the U.S. and abroad aimed at helping clinicians improve their skills for working with people who stutter. A former member of the board of directors of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) and Associate Coordinator of the ASHA Special Interest Division for Fluency Disorders, he has published more than 300 articles, chapters, booklets, and other resources about stuttering and related topics, such as counseling skills. (More information can be found at www.Yaruss.com.) Yaruss is the co-author of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES), Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide, School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide and Minimizing Bullying for Children Who Stutter, all published by Stuttering Therapy Resources, Inc.
SLP-Seminars taught by J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Stuttering and Fluency Disorders
Assessing the Entire Stuttering Disorder: From Fluency to Adverse Impact
This workshop helps clinicians develop the skills they need to accurately assess the entirety of the stuttering disorder, including the frequency and nature of observable stuttering behaviors, the reactions of the child and his environment to stuttering, and the adverse educational impact that results from stuttering. Based on frameworks and measurement tools used worldwide, this workshop helps clinicians ensure that they are recommending the right treatment at the right time for the right children - and this leads to greater success in treatment.
Practical Treatment Strategies for Children Who Stutter
(available in both Preschool and School-age Versions)
Detailed, clinically focused programs that help speech-language pathologists improve their competence and confidence for helping children who stutter. Workshops can focus on preschoolers and their families, school-age children, or adolescents (or any combination of ages group). Both the preschool and school-age versions are based on comprehensive, data-based frameworks to ensure that clinicians provide evidence-based treatment for all aspects of the stuttering disorder. The preschool workshop includes key information about incorporating parents into treatment -- and, what to do if you don't have access to the parents. The school-age workshop addresses critical topics such as enhancing motivation, minimizing bullying and teasing, and working with children with concomitant disorders. Both workshops include concrete, IEP-ready treatment goals and real-world activities that can be immediately applied in therapy sessions.
Effective Treatment Strategies for Children Who Stutter: An Advanced Course
(available in both Preschool and School-age Versions)
Builds on the Practical Treatment Strategies program with more advanced training on key issues facing children who stutter and their families, and a focus on following the principles of evidence-based practice. The preschool version reviews nearly 30 challenging scenarios commonly faced by clinicians working with preschool children who stutter and their families. The focus is on helping clinicians know what to say and what to do in order to help children improve their fluency and their communication skills. The school-age version includes nearly 15 video samples of specific treatment activities that help children speak more easily, reduce the sevrerity of their stuttering, minimize their own (and other people's) negative reactions to stuttering, reduce the effects of bullying and teasing, and ensure successful communication in academic and social settings. Both workshops include 10 concrete treatment goals that clinicians can immediately incorporate in their treatment plans, as well as more than 25 specific treatment activities that can be directly utilized in daily clinical practice.
Counseling Skills
Practical Counseling Strategies for Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are trained to help people with speech and language disorders improve their communication abilities and increase their ability to function in their daily lives. Many times, however, people with communication disorders also experience negative affective and cognitive reactions to their speaking difficulties. These reactions can have a significant impact on a speaker’s emotional well-being and impede a client’s progress in therapy. If SLPs wish to help their clients achieve their greatest success in therapy, they need to address these negative reactions.
Unfortunately, many clinicians do not feel adequately prepared to address emotional or cognitive factors, even though treatment of such reactions are within the SLP’s scope of practice. This workshop provides clinicians with information about counseling people with communication disorders. Topics include: when to use counseling skills, the nature of the emotional reactions clients may experience, and how to develop counseling skills.
The workshop is based on a standard model of the helping process drawn from counseling psychology (Egan's Skilled Helper Model) which helps clients: (a) understand and describe their current situation, (b) identify and select possible options for the successful outcome of treatment, (c) evaluate various strategies for achieving treatment goals, and (d) develop and execute an action plan for achieving goals in treatment and in life in general. Participants will learn several specific counseling strategies that can help them accurately understand the client’s point of view and convey their understanding of the client’s perspective, provide helpful responses to clients' statements of emotion, and support clients in taking responsibility for change in treatment.
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