The presentation is intended mainly for professionals working with clients who stutter. An approach to counseling that is based on grief work will be presented.

As a result of this workshop, participants will:
- Gain an understanding of loss and how it impacts clients
- Learn some skills in dealing with client feelings

Target
Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Graduate Students

Bio:
David Luterman, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, is a professor emeritus at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and served as the Director of the Thayer Lindsey Family Centered Nursery for Hearing Impaired Children. He is the author of many articles and several books, including his seminal book called Counseling Persons with Communication Disorders and Their Families, now in its 5th edition. He has done several podcasts and a DVD through the Stuttering Foundation called Counseling People who Stutter and Their Families.

In addition to authoring many books, he is a well-known teacher, researcher, consultant, and lecturer. Dr. Luterman is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and recipient of the Frank Kleffner Clinical Achievement Award (2011).