The family is a system in which all the parts are interconnected and therefore we are dealing with a family in which everyone is grappling with stuttering. This workshop will focus on the components of the family system and describe what would make a family successful in supporting the individual who stutters. The optimal and successful family will be delineated. A discussion of resilience and its importance to a successful outcome will be presented. 

As a result of this workshop:
1. Participants will gain an appreciation of the family as an interconnected system. 
2. Participants will understand resilience and its role in enabling the family to be successful. 
3. Counseling strategies to improve outcomes by working at the family level will be described.

Target
Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Graduate Students

David Luterman, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, is a professor emeritus at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and 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).