Online Learning

Session 1 Monday 11th October 2021, 8.30am-11.00am NZDT

Session 2 Monday 18th October 2021, 8.30am-11.00am NZDT

Single registration cost is for each individual, not per site. Each person must register and attendance is required for both sessions. Zoom will be used to deliver the training with “meeting room” details emailed to participants prior to each module. You will need to download Zoom software to your computer. A webcam and inbuilt microphone on your computer is also preferable so you can fully participate. The sessions will not be recorded to protect participant confidentiality due to the interactive nature of the training.

Intended Participants

This online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is intended for students and practitioners in speech-language pathology/speech-language therapy interested in stuttering and the new meanings people who stutter are finding in their speech.

Readings and Resources

We recommend participants read a selection of the following articles prior to attendance, but it is not required:

Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference Not Defect. Edited by Patrick Campbell, Chris Constantino and Sam Simpson. Introduction free online: https://www.jr-press.co.uk/Doc...
Stammering Gain by Christopher Constantino: http://isad.isastutter.org/isa...
The Construction of the Disabled Speaker by Joshua St. Pierre: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/artic le/view/54/56

Learning Objectives

Following this event participants will be able to:

Define the medical and social models of disability as well as the neurodiversity paradigm
Describe the relevance of the social model to our understanding of stammering and stammering therapy
Reflect on some of the questions and controversies the social model of disability brings to current speech and language therapy practice
Outline examples of how social interventions could remove barriers to enhance the lives of people who stammer
Describe the concept and basis of stammering pride
Identify and challenge the negative narratives and language often employed when talking about stammering
Outline positive narratives around stammering to clients and society

Content and Format

This workshop is for speech and language therapists who want to learn more about the social model of disability and stammering pride in a shared and collaborative learning environment. This event is spread over two x 2.5hour modules (5 hours of learning in total). There will be a balance of formal presentation, whole group discussion and smaller group experiential learning opportunities. To help create an open and intimate environment we have limited the numbers to 18.

About Patrick Campbell and Sam Simpson

Patrick Campbell is a stammerer and children’s doctor living in Cambridge, England. He has an interest in how public and self-stigma intertwine to produce disability for people who stammer and how this debilitating process can be altered through seeing positive value in stammering.

Sam Simpson is a speech and language therapist, person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer with over 25 years’ experience of working with people who stammer and their families in the public, private, education and voluntary sectors. She has a particular interest in disability studies, stammering activism and what stammering can teach us about ourselves and the world.