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

• ASHA Convention Handouts Relating to Fluency Disorders 2006-2012.

• 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.
  • What Does Stuttering Sound, Look and Feel Like - samples from the open Internet
    • What Does Stuttering Sound Like?
      • Online Transcription Training Course for stuttering and fluent speech
      • Database of approximately 150 samples of stammering from University College of London.
      • Voices: Past and Present has several speeches by people who stutter.
    • What Does Stuttering Look Like?
      • Stuttering Measurement System developed by Roger Ingham, Janis Ingham, Richard Moglia, and Martin Kilgo, a program, manual, and training video with various sample videos of stuttering dysfluencies to evaluate.
      • Onset and Development by Valerie LaPorte, former student, revised by: Cindy S. Spillers, current web master, has video clips from the SFA films that demonstrate several stuttering symptoms.
      • Pre and Post videos and Follow up videos from Ross Barrett's web site.
      • Many more samples can be found by exploring Google Video and YouTube with the keywords "stuttering" or "stammering."
    • What Does Stuttering Feel Like?
      • Born with a broken tongue - a multimedia look at what it is like to stutter, by Martin Casey.
  • The Museum includes 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
  • Counseling Materials for those teaching counseling courses or incorporating counseling information in other courses, including fluency disorders courses.

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.

• 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