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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 support options within the stuttering community and how important it is for therapists to understand the power of community in their work with individuals who stutter of all ages. 

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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 things outside of the therapy room in a variety of ways.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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 importance of developing goals in a collaborative manner with clients, how to shift the focus from what's not going well, to what actually is going well, and finally, they provide clinical examples of SFBT in practice. 

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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 as an active, 'survival' tactic in today's able-body dominated society rather than a passive repression of one's authentic self that has historically been proposed. Later, Chris shares clinical implications of his research and how we, as clinicians, can better serve individuals who pass as fluent the better we understand the true interaction of stuttering and society. 

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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 expertise and comfort among therapists when working with students who stutter. He discusses the steps his district took to implement a training program and on-going consultancy support for Wake County therapists. Additionally, Rob discusses his district's framework for approaching stuttering therapy in a whole-child manner, putting overall communicative effectiveness at the forefront. 

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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 reasons. In addition, she discusses the role of an SLP in the process of change, and what taking a solution-focused, client-centered approach to therapy may look like.

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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!