Stuttering Foundation Podcast

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Dr. Ellen Kelly hosts today's episode, which is an audio adaptation of a video presentation (video viewing details below). This "Career Retrospective" Series is a new Stuttering Foundation project. Through this project, we hope to honor and archive the careers, stories, lessons, and advice for future generations from the "Stutteri...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! In the continuation of our 'Sara and Ellen' discussion segment, Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F, Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC),  joins host Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP, for a fun simulation of an initial therapy session/ intake consultation discu...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Dr. Bridget Walsh joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss recent research related to documenting and better understanding disfluency behaviors expressed by 4- and 5- year-old children who stutter and to identify whether stuttering characteristics at this age are predictive of later stuttering recovery or persistence. Dr. Walsh discusses potent...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! In our final installment (and possibly our favorite!) of our Panel Series, all ten panel members debrief and answer questions from students. Listen and learn as panel members offer more details on their own experiences, share perspectives on things like speech tools and managing parent expectations, and they close by offering advice to SLPs based on...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Listen and learn from the stories of five more adults who stutter as they reflect on their journeys. Spring, Eugene, Cara, Dillon, and Sara share where they were, where they are today, and where they hope to be in the future. Be sure to join us next week for Part 3 for a Q&A and discussion among all 10 panelists. Endless thanks to the panel membe...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Listen and learn from the stories of five adults who stutter as they reflect on their journeys. Megan, Heather, Jack, Emily, and Courtney share where they were, where they are today, and where they hope to be in the future. Be sure to join us for Part 2 next week, where we will hear from another 5 adults who stutter. Then, tune back in for Part 3 for...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Rob Dellinger, M.S., CCC-SLP of the Wake County Public Schools in Raleigh, NC is back for a special episode for our school-based segment focused on goal writing. Listen to Rob continue his discussion related to challenges school-based therapists face, and offer suggestions for how we can expand our viewpoint and provide more comprehensive therapy to...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! What do adults who stutter and stuttering specialists think it means to make a positive change to stuttering? Naomi H. Rodgers, Ph. D., CCC-SLP and Hope Gerlach, Ph. D., CCC-SLP join host, Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP, to discuss their current research related to better understanding what the change process looks like for adults who stutter;  specif...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! We kick off Season Two with the continuation of our 'Sara & Ellen' discussion segment with host, Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP, and Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F, Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Sara and Ellen discuss the importance of prepari...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F of Vanderbilt University joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP for an episode devoted to discussing how to best support parents through the therapeutic process and across the lifespan of a child. Ellen and Sara talk through how they build and foster strong partnerships with parents beginning from the initial contact/...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Courtney Luckman, M.A., CCC-SLP discusses practical strategies and activities for thawing the Stuttering Iceberg in therapy with clients who stutter. Courtney shares a bit about her personal journey as a person who stutters, how her experience impacts her work as an SLP, and walks us through how to utilize the Stuttering Iceberg analogy in therapy wi...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Sharon Millard, Ph. D., CertMRCSLT, HCPC, research lead and clinical specialist at the Michael Palin Centre in London, gives listeners an overview of exciting research findings to support the efficacy and effectiveness of the Palin PCI therapy program for young children who stutter and their families. Sharon gives listeners a brief introduction to Pa...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Robert Dellinger, M.S., CCC-SLP of the Wake County Public Schools is back for our second episode in our school-based segment. Listen to Rob continue his discussion related to challenges school-based therapists face, and offer suggestions for how we can expand our viewpoint and provide more comprehensive therapy to children who stutter in the schools....

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F of Vanderbilt University joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss navigating the many uncertainties that can come about when working with young children who stutter and their families. Ellen and Sara discuss how important individualization is with all clients, but specifically with this age group. They discus...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Three young adults join host, Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to share their journeys with stuttering and their advice to therapists. Mary, Aileen, and Josette discuss where they were, where they are today, where they hope to be, and what has positively impacted them along the way. The three guests share advice to therapists, specific experiences with...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Nic Brow, M.A., CCC-SLP joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss the importance of community. Nic opens up about his personal journey as someone who stutters, his experience in Avoidance Reduction Therapy as both a client and clinician, and discusses how impactful finding the stuttering community was for him. Nic and Sara talk about different s...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F of Vanderbilt University joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss the importance of taking therapy beyond the therapy room. Ellen and Sara discuss suggestions on client-driven 'outside' assignments and goal generation, the concept of scaffolding desensitization and exposure, and ideas for taking thi...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Dr. Dennis Drayna joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss recent findings in genetics research specific to stuttering. Dr. Drayna begins by giving viewers an overview, then moves on to share an exciting new finding from his lab related to potential astrocyte cell involvement in stuttering.

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Voon Pang, BSc,CPSP, MNZS joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP from ASHA 2019 in Orlando, Florida where they discuss and debrief on various sessions they attended throughout the second part of the convention. 

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Voon Pang, BSc,CPSP, MNZS joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP from ASHA 2019 in Orlando, Florida where they discuss and debrief on various sessions they attended throughout the first part of the convention. 

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F of Vanderbilt University joins Sara MacIntyre to discuss Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) as a helpful framework for developing client-driven goals in therapy. SFBT helps guide clients to identifying and setting their own goals for change in a strength-focused, positive manner. Ellen and Sara discuss the impor...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Christopher Constantino, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor at Florida State University, joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to discuss his research related to better understanding covert stuttering and the reasons why individuals who covertly stutter decide to pass as fluent. Chris proposes that individuals who pass as fluent choose to pass more a...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Robert Dellinger, M.S., CCC-SLP, of the Wake County Public School System in Raleigh, NC joins Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP to kick off our "Stuttering in the Schools" on-going series aimed at tackling topics specific to therapists working in the school setting. On this episode, Rob Dellinger shares his district's journey to increase e...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Ellen Kelly, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, BCS-F of Vanderbilt University joins Sara MacIntyre to discuss what focusing on Communication over Fluency may mean in effective stuttering therapy. Dr. Kelly shares her experience and evolution as a therapist and researcher and encourages clinicians to re-consider goals strictly related to speech tools for a variety of...

Want to share your feedback? Send us a message! Stuttering Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of Stuttering Foundation Podcast . We will feature a variety of episodes focused on providing relevant and practical clinical knowledge, research updates, support and advice for parents, special segments such as supporting therapists working in the school setting, and more!