International Year of the Child Who Stutters
to the seventh!! International Online Conference on Stuttering, chaired by Judith Kuster, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
The online conference itself is freely available, but is also available for 1.5 CEU's (15 hours) or 1 semester credit. To learn how to register for the ISAD online conference for MSU, Mankato CEU's or college credit Open this link
For participants who need some basic information about stuttering, please read about Stuttering from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association.. Additional information is available on the Stuttering Home Page.
This year's conference is in celebration of the International Year of the Child Who Stutters, and is designed for people who stutter (adults and children), their families and employers, the professionals who work with them, students in training and their instructors. It also features a special section specifically designed for kids and teens who stutter.
Beginning October 1 there are 31 full length papers, 1 panel with several shorter papers, and two sections - "The Professor is In" and "The Researcher is In" - where you can ask questions of several professionals. An additional special feature are presentations that are especially appropropriate for children and teens who stutter. These are marked with . Please visit the presentations with children who stutter and help them participate in the threaded discussions! indicates that an audio file accompanies the presentation. These audio files are designed to work both Macintosh and PC. More information about accessing the audio files and how long it may take with the computer connection you have is available here If you cannot access the audio files, the papers still contain valuable information and questions/comments may be directed to any of individuals who wrote the commentary.
The contributions in this conference reflect professional and consumer interests about stuttering and are presented by over 60 individuals representing 16 different countries on 6 different continents. Each paper also has a threaded discussion page for your comments and questions. By October 22, 2004, International Stuttering Awareness Day, the authors of the papers will respond as they wish. Feel free to post your questions/comments at any time and check back on International Stuttering Awareness Day for any response from the author. Contributors to the conference are solely responsible for the information they provide. The conference organizer and Minnesota State University cannot be responsible for nor can we attest to the accuracy or efficacy of the information others provide. The authors' papers will be permanently archived on the Stuttering Home Page for you to read at any time. (http://www.stutteringhomepage.com).
Remember that there are many people writing and attending this conference for whom English is not their first language. The Altavista Translation Service may help those who don't read English well to understand some of these papers. If you put the URL (address) of any paper into the above site, you can ask that the paper be translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, or Portuguese. It will not be a perfect translation, but you should be able to get the idea.
Please ask questions that are relevant to the papers and refrain from developing a personal topic. It is expected that participants will remain cordial. The coordinator of the conference retains the right to delete posts considered inappropriate.
One final request - you are of course free to read and respond to any/all of the papers. For students and others intending to read all of the papers, I have a request. Those whose last names begin A-L, please start reading the conference papers from the last paper to the first. For those whose last names begin M-Z, please start with the papers at the beginning.
Several university professors have agreed to serve as a panel to answer appropriately-posed questions about stuttering. This is especially designed as a good opportunity for parents of children who stutter, and for children, teens, and for adults who stutter to ask questions of several highly qualified specialists in the area of stuttering. It is not for lengthy discussion/debate or for students assigned to "post something to the online conference."
list of professors here Ask your question here |
Several researchers have agreed to serve as a panel to answer appropriately-posed questions about research in fluency and fluency disorders. This is especially designed to make the research understandable, not to evaluate it. It is a good opportunity for students, as well as parents of children who stutter, and for children, teens, and adults who stutter to ask questions about research of several highly qualified researchers in the area of stuttering. It is not for lengthy discussion/debate or for students assigned to "post something to the online conference."
list of reseachers here Ask your question here |
Looking Back and Looking Forward: It Gets Easier (Please read the short introduction about Bridge Builders before you read the selections below. All the individuals stories below are also linked to the bottom of Looking Back and Looking Forward)
Online Stories
Panel: Kids and Teens support projects (The short articles below are all connected to this link) Questions/comments
Counseling Parents of Children Who Stutter: a transition from information giver to clinician/counselor by Charleen Bloom and Donna Cooperman
Intensive Treatment: Let's Take a Look at Teens by Susan Cochrane (New York, USA) Questions/comments
A mouse in the corner: Reflections upon listening to a 1966 audio recording of Charles Van Riper and Joseph G. Sheehan informally discussing stuttering moderated by Eugene Cooper (Florida, USA) Questions/comments
Therapeutic Listening by Joe Donaher and Mike Retzinger (Pennsylvania, USA and Wisconsin, USA)Questions/comments
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things! by Judith Eckhardt (Arizona, USA)Questions/comments
Stuttering Goes To School: A Guide for Teachers by Silvana Franchini, Maria Eugenia Ramirez, and Cristina Reppett (Argentina) Questions/comments
Is there room for improvisation in all of this? by Pat Gangnon, (Wisconsin, USA) Questions/comments
Fluency Friday Plus: An Intensive Treatment Program for Children with Stuttering by Diane Games, (Ohio, USA) Questions/comments
Treating Preschoolers Who Stutter - Solutions Within A Publicly Funded Program by Marlene Green (Canada) Questions/comments
What I Wish I Had Known by Dori Holte (Minnesota, USA) Questions/comments
Confirmation Day for Blaise by Martin Jumbam (Cameroon, W. AFRICA)Questions/comments
Inspirational Sayings by Judy Kuster and many others around the world Questions/comments
Successful breakthrough therapy by Li Qingsong (Nanjing City, China)Questions/comments
(Chinese Version of "Success Breakthrough Therapy" for Chinese readers)
Obsessions with Language, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Stutter by Jesse Loesberg (California, USA) Questions/comments
When Children Who Stutter Present Co-occuring Speech-Language Disorders: Some Clinical Considerations by Kenneth J. Logan (Florida, USA)Questions/comments
CFO: Chief Fluency Officer by Tim Mackesey and Robert Jones (Georgia, USA)Questions/comments
Employing the MSAM in Attaining, Maintaining and Transferring Fluency in the Schools by Kay Monkhouse (Pennsylvania, USA)Questions/comments
My Personal Transformation by Masaki Nagao (Japan)Questions/comments
Fluency Shaping Techniques: Helpful, But Why We Must Know More by Peter Ramig and Darrell Dodge (Colorado, USA)Questions/comments
Tongue Tied. by John Ravenscroft (England) Questions/comments
The Dreaded Job Interview:
Secret Tips from the Inside -for Stutterers! by Chris Roach (Texas, USA) Questions/comments
Providing Help for People Who Stutter: A World View by Ken St. Louis (West Virginia, USA) Questions/comments
Riding The "Fluency Instability" Roller Coaster by Phillip Schneider (New York, USA) Questions/comments
FRIENDS & Family Day: One-Day Workshop for Supporting Children Who Stutter & Their Families by Lynne Shields (Missouri, USA), Susan Short (Illinois, USA) Ro Ostergaard (Illinois, USA) Lee Caggiano (New York, USA), Bill Shannon (New York, USA) Questions/comments
Using Story to Help Heal by Ellen-Marie Silverman, (Wisconsin, USA)Questions/comments
stutter as story by Nathaniel Stern, (South Africa)Questions/comments
International Stuttering Awareness Day: ISAD from conception to present day by Michael Sugarman, (California, USA)Questions/comments
The Power Of Metaphor In Stuttering Therapy by Luc Tielens (Belgium)Questions/comments
Wall of silence: What your kids won't tell you about bullying by Gina Waggott (England)Questions/comments
Her Child Stutters and She Became a Pyromaniac by Albert Zhang (Shanghai, China)Questions/comments
Viren Gandhi from India has created a single zip file of all the conference papers that can be downloaded and read offline. It will open on either a PC or a MAC. When the files are unzipped (PC) or unstuffed (MAC), it creates the same structure as it is on Internet. When you click on it, it opens the ISAD7 Main Conference Page and then you can read the papers on ISAD7 offline as it is on Internet, but without access to all the questions/comments and answers, the sound files, or the powerpoints that are part of some of the papers. For PC users who prefer, an exe file is also avaiable. Download it to your desktop and click on the "index" file. This will not work on a MAC computer. If you have questions, please address them to Viren Gandhi (viren_gandhi@yahoo.com).
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