Sarah Caughter will discuss working with parents of children who stutter, developing their understanding of stuttering and boosting their own confidence and resilience in supporting their child with stuttering. She will explore how this supports parents to nurture their child’s emotional wellbeing and coping skills. This workshop will outline working with parents in a group context, helping parents to feel more at ease with stuttering and empowering them to manage stuttering within the family context. 

Learning Objectives:
Participants will: 
1. Be introduced to the holistic and multidimensional approach to therapy delivered at the MPC, using the Palin model 
2. Explore the meaning of resilience and the skills included under this umbrella term 
3. Understand a range of activities used to support parents in building their knowledge and confidence about stuttering 
4. Be introduced to outcome measures that can be used with parents to monitor progress in therapy from their own
perspective

Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Students

Bio: Sarah Caughter is a highly specialist SLT who has worked at the Michael Palin Centre (MPC) since 2009. She has a Masters in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with children and young people and is an accredited ‘Cool Kids’ therapist (an evidence-based anxiety program for children and their parents). Sarah completed an intensive ‘train the trainers’ course in building resilience in young children, in Canada, in 2016. Full bio on website.