In "ARTS in Action: Applying Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering," Vivian Sisskin and Ben Goldstein, from the Sisskin Stuttering Center, will lead a practical discussion with stutterers, Jay Dedman and Aidan Marshall-Cort, about their ARTS® journey. Vivian and Ben provide 4 “action steps” through which they guide stutterers to achieve outcomes of efficient, comfortable, and confident communication through Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS®).

Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Graduate Students, Adults/Teens who Stutter, Parents

Vivian Sisskin is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, an ASHA Fellow, and a Board Certified Specialist in Fluency Disorders. She served as Coordinator for ASHA’s Special Interest Group 4 (Fluency Disorders), Chair of ASHA’s Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, and received ASHA’s Media Champion Award. Sisskin served as Vice-Chair of the American Board on Fluency and Fluency Disorders and is a faculty member for the Stuttering Foundation’s Mid-Atlantic Workshop. She was named Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year by the National Stuttering Association. She owns the Sisskin Stuttering Center in the Washington DC area.

Ben Goldstein is a speech-language pathologist and stuttering consultant for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland and an associate clinician at the Sisskin Stuttering Center in the Washington D.C. area. He is also an adjunct professor at Gallaudet University, teaching the graduate level stuttering course. Ben has presented on Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS®) at national conferences, speech pathology graduate school programs, and to school-based speech pathologists in the Mid-Atlantic region.