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This course will provide an overview of several evidence-based phonological interventions, including cycles, complexity approach, contrastive approaches, core vocabulary approach and stimulability approach. Strategies for choosing and implementing these approaches across therapy settings, along with videos of actual therapy sessions demonstrating implementation, will also be provided.

Most clinicians learned to transcribe samples for children who speak General American English (GAE), yet many clients speak dialects that differ from GAE. When a child doesn't speak GAE, clinicians also often do not know when a child's production of a word, inflection, or phrase should be considered appropriate or inappropriate for a child's dialect. This talk will present transcription and coding guidelines to use with children who speak a variety of English dialects that differ from GAE.

Research has demonstrated that stuttering can have an adverse impact on a person’s quality of life. For example, people who stutter often report reduced well-being, resulting from factors like fear and avoidance of introducing oneself, using the telephone, and speaking to authority figures. Moreover, stuttering can affect a person’s identity and life experience in different ways, based on factors such as family support, cultural upbringing, and additional stigmas. Through both research and the author’s personal journey as a person who stutters, this presentation will discuss factors that influence identities, intersectionality of multiple identities, and the clinical relevance of understanding different narratives of people who stutter.