5TH WORLD CONGRESS
ON FLUENCY DISORDERS

25 – 28th
July, 2006
 
Dublin, Ireland

 

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Five Keynote Speakers will talk about current fluency research, practice and quality of life issues for people with fluency disorders.

 

ASHA CEU offered for these sessions

Rosemarie Hayhow: A Qualitative Study of the Lidcombe Program: Grappling with Detail

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.

 

Tony DiLollo: Foxes, Scorpions, and Stuttering Research: How a Constructivist Perspective Might Help us Avoid Getting Stung

Professor at the Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.

 

Highlight: Aspects of constructivist thought as it relates to stuttering and the implications such a perspective might provide for stuttering research (i.e., with a focus on qualitative research)

 

Michael Sugarman: A World that Understands Stuttering: A Roadmap

Michael is co-founder of National Stuttering Association (USA) Executive Director ’78 – ’81& ’95 – ’97.

Currently serves as Vice-Chair to ISA, Chair of the Support Group and Consumer Affairs for the IFA.

 

Anne Smith: Physiological Indices of Speech and Language Processes: New Windows on the Onset of Stuttering in Young Children

Anne is professor at the University of Purdue, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

 

Highlight: The development of  speech production processes, the evidence for strong language/motor interactions, and the implications of these findings and her latest results  on young stuttering children for understanding the onset and maintenance of stuttering.

 

John Van Borsel: Stuttering and Bilingualism: Questions, Answers and Evidence

John is professor of neurolinguistics at the University of Ghent, Belgium.



 

 

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