About the Clinical Procedures for School-Age Children who Stutter Workshop

This workshop is designed for speech pathologists to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to assist school-age children who stutter. The information in the workshop is presented by speech pathologists who specialise in stuttering treatment.

The workshop begins with an overview of the characteristics of stuttering in school age children, measurement of stuttering, and initial assessment. Overarching principles to guide clinical practice with this client group are introduced. Evidence-based stuttering treatments are described, and common issues discussed.

Participants learn through discussion and role-play, through video demonstration and by hearing from all key stakeholders including children who stutter, their parents, speech pathologists and psychologists.

Learning outcomes:

Understand the general characteristics of stuttering in school-age children
Assess and measure stuttering in this population
Gain an understanding of the role of the speech pathologist when working with this population
Describe the evidence for, and have an understanding of, treatments that may be used
Gain experience in problem solving some of the clinical issues encountered

Prerequisite:

Registration is open to all qualified speech pathologists who have attended the Continuing Professional Education for Stuttering (CPES) 2-day Lidcombe Program workshop. Your workshop attendance will need to be entered at registration.

Please contact Monica Bain at cpes@uts.edu.au if you need to check eligibility.

This workshop will be presented by Zoom, over four modules and is open to speech pathologists within Australia. Please contact Monica Bain at cpes@uts.edu.au if you are outside of Australia.

Below is the July timetable.

Module 1	Wednesday 3rd July	1:00pm - 4:30pm (AEST) UTC+10
Module 2	Thursday 4th July	1:00pm - 4:30pm (AEST) UTC+10
Module 3	Wednesday 10th July	1:00pm - 4:30pm (AEST) UTC+10
Module 4	Thursday 11th July	1:00pm - 4:30pm (AEST) UTC+10

Please note that the times are for GMT+10 Australia/Sydney

This Continuing Professional Education for Stuttering (CPES) workshop is conducted jointly by the Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney, the Stuttering Unit at South Western Sydney Local Health District, and the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University.