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From: Santina Stewart, SLP Grad. Student,, Albany, NY
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 18:11:36 -0500
Remote Name: 72.224.35.109
The weekend workshop has been around for about 29 years at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Basically, the workshop takes place once a year for a weekend of events. Formats may differ depending on the theme of the event. Past themes have included the Fluency Olympics, the Superbowl of Fluency, a Cruise to Fluency and March Madness-Shoot for Fluency. Children and adults are grouped together for certain events and assigned to one of two teams. This serves as a motivational device - - "friendly competition." PWS engage in a number of activities and drills throughout the weekend and accumulate points for their team on worksheets. Samples of drill activities include use of fluency targets during warm up activities (reading, monologue and conversation), talking to others (2-3-4 sentences), talking on the phone, role playing, video-taping, or other high level activities and speaking at microphone during dinner event with audience of around 150-200). At the end of the weekend there is a closing ceremony in which participants give a brief talk about their experience over the weekend to a group including other participants, family members, friends and students in the communication disorders department. As I have not been to the entire weekend event, this information is from professor's in the CSD department - Sr. Charleen Bloom and Donna Cooperman's text, Synergistic Stuttering Therapy. They head this event and I will get more detailed information from them to send to you (in previous notes you listed a contact e-mail address). Hope that this brief description helps. Those who have participated in this weekend say that it provides a positive and motivating atmosphere for all.