Given the new information we are learning from people who clutter, modifications to existing assessment and treatment protocols are warranted. This workshop covers the areas below and use case illustrations of principles.
1. Changes to the evaluation process to obtain a holistic picture of client needs
2. Understanding and ongoing assessment of readiness for change as applied to cluttering
3. Ways to decide upon treatment focus and timeline
4. Activities other than strategies to include in treatment.

Target
Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Graduate Students, those with cluttering and their allies

Bio:
Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F is a speech-language pathologist, Board Certified Fluency Specialist, ASHA Fellow and Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University. Dr. Scaler Scott’s research and clinical interests include cluttering, atypical disfluencies and disfluency with concomitant diagnoses. She is author of Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses, a textbook and treatment manual focusing on understanding, evaluating and treating cluttering, stuttering, and atypical disfluencies along with concomitant disorders. She is also co-author of the Second Edition of the Source for Stuttering and Cluttering along with Glen Tellis. Dr. Scaler Scott was the first Coordinator of the International Cluttering Association and the 2018 recipient of the Deso Weis Award for Excellence in the field of Cluttering.