Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders

Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders

Managing fluency disorders is further complicated by concomitant diagnoses. This workshop will use a case-based approach to cover the following:
1. Understanding the intersection of fluency disorders with concomitant diagnoses
2. Stuttering, Cluttering, and/or Atypical Disfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorder: 4 cases of interest
3. Stuttering in Selective Mutism
4. Stuttering, Cluttering in Intellectual Disability
Details: Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
Bio:  Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Monmouth 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. 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.

Speaker: Kathleen Scaler Scott, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F; Associate Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders