This site contains materials shared by your colleages to provide ideas to develop, revise, or enhance your fluency disorders course. The site is maintained by Judy Kuster, who welcomes suggestions and additional materials and ideas.

Teaching-related information and materials

• Course syllabi

• Lecture Materials and Course Ideas
  • Evaluating and Measuring Speech Fluency - password protected client videos. Professors can contact Judy Kuster (judith.kuster@mnsu.edu) from a university address to provide practice with "virtual clients" in fluency and diagnostics classes.
  • The Museum includes a link to Voices: Past and Present (audios of several of several important professionals), information about several of the important pioneers who have died, some historically interesting old books that are online, several articles about the history that ASHA has let me put online, and more.
  • Participation in International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conferences when the conference is "live" from October 1-22. All past conference papers and discussions also remain online and students can either evaluate a conference or be assigned many of the valuable papers they contain.
  • Student Journal - student projects about stuttering that are worthy of special note. Professors are welcome to submit additional papers or ideas.
  • Finding Professional Resources about Stuttering - links to journals and abstracts, a bookstore of several available books and online bibliographies related to stuttering/cluttering
  • Things to do when you must miss a class - includes several online examples of stuttering and full-length videos as well as other ideas.
  • PowerPoint Lectures and Presentations
  • Various handouts
  • Problem-Based Learning Materials

• Bank of exam questions

Therapy-related information and materials

• Guidelines for Practice in Stuttering Treatment from the Special Interest Division on Fluency and Fluency Disorders is available on the ASHA web site.

• SID4 Clinician Competencies - Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

• Online Therapy Materials - links to diagnosis and treatment materials for stuttering that are currently freely available on the Internet.

Potential materials for student advising

• Ph.D. Programs in Stuttering

Online CEUs on Fluency and Fluency Disorders

Important resources for ASHA-certified instructors in the area of fluency disorders

• Special Interest Division 4 - Fluency and Fluency Disorders
  • The freely available website contains
    • Announcements
    • The Division Vision Statement
    • Study and Professional Issues
    • Affiliate Benefits
    • Division Steering Committee
    • How to join a division
  • Division 4 mailing list (for Division 4 members only)
    To join the list, send an e-mail to asha-div4-request@lists.asha.org . In the subject line write Subscribe Full Name ASHA account number (if you have that available). Leave the body of the message blank.
    Examples:
    Subscribe John Smith 0005556
    Subscribe John Smith
    
    You will receive confirmation after we have confirmed your membership status along with a welcome message that will include further information about this list. If you have any technical difficulties subscribing, posting messages, or receiving them, please send an e-mail to ListAdmin@asha.org
  • Division 4 Perspectives (for Division 4 members only)
    Perspectives is an online publication of the Special Interest Divisions and is only available to Division members. You must activate a "HighWire account  using your ASHA ID number to access Perspectives. After you have activated your HighWire account, you will be able to sign into the Perspectives for Division4. Additional information is available on the Announcements and Events page on the ASHA website.
• Specialty Recognition in Fluency and Fluency Disorders
  • The freely available website contains
    • Specialty Board on Fluency Disorders Manual
    • Mentor List
    • List of Specialists (Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders, BRS-FD)
    • Specialty board members
    • Appellate members
    • Procedures for becoming a specialist
    • Procedures for becoming a mentor
    • Slides Highlighting the Specialty Recognition Process (also in Powerpoint format)

Valuable Stuttering/Stammering Links

• ASHA
• British Stammering Association
• European League of Stuttering Associations
• International Cluttering Association
• International Fluency Associationhttp://www.friendswhostutter.org/.
• Friends: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter
• International Stuttering Association
• National Stuttering Association
• Stuttering Foundation
• The Stuttering Home Page

Current webweaver, Judy Kuster
last modified June 25, 2008