Historically, stammering has been understood as a defect that needs to be fixed. Over the past two decades, therapists and people who stammer have looked beyond such aims and instead developed approaches to therapy that affirm stammering as a valid and respectable way of speaking. These stammering-affirming therapy approaches look to shift how people feel about and approach their stammer in daily life to build a shared world t...
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This 1-day course will offer a practice framework to support therapists wanting to adopt a stammering-affirming approach to therapy. This framework offers 6 positive pathways and directions of travel. These will be illustrated through practice examples and preliminary findings from a pilot study will also be shared. Finally, participants will be introduced to ‘Reflect’, an app being developed through Stuttering Commons to give online access to the framework via an interactive self-rating scale and dynamic radial map. This aims to support a more detailed understanding of the diverse factors that shape how stammering can be storied in a person’s life. It can also act as a springboard to envisage future possibilities and new understandings of stammering as well as tracking change and transition over time.
What will we cover?
• Brief overview of the current landscape of clinical practice • Alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding stammering and their implications for stammering therapy • Overview of key principles underpinning stammering-affirming therapy • Presentation of a stammering-affirming therapy framework offering 6 positive pathways and directions of travel, illustrated through practice examples • Overview of pilot study findings • Description of Reflect, an app developed through Stuttering Commons to give online access to the therapy framework via an interactive self-rating scale and mapping tool
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Explain alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding stammering and their implications for stammering therapy • Summarise the key principles underpinning stammering-affirming therapy • Explain the 6 positive pathways and directions of travel that support stammering-affirming shared world building • Identify practice examples relevant to your work context using a stammering-affirming therapy framework • Identify how Reflect could support your clients consider the factors that have shaped how they story stammering in their life, future possibilities and new understandings of stammering as well as track change and transition
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
The course is suitable for qualified speech and language therapists working with children, young people and adults who stammer who are interested in stammering-affirming therapy approaches that support their clients to resist fluency norms and find value in their stammering. To access the course, you need to be able to relate the topics being taught to your own experience and practice context.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
The course will be delivered via Zoom. You will need to ensure a private confidential environment with reliable Internet connection and use of a working camera. There will be an experiential component to the course as well as some theoretical input and practical sessions. Examples of stammering-affirming practice with children, young people and adults will be shared. You will be provided with a handout.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
There are no additional costs although you may choose to purchase books from the suggested reading list.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
• Other stammering-affirming therapy professional training courses/workshops • Independent reading and reflection • Further engagement with the ideas and therapy practices through stammering-specific supervision (1:1 or group)
A follow-up day in January 2027, course code XS237A
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