This course focuses on equipping students with an understanding of historical and contemporary principles and theories surrounding the nature of stuttering and related disorders, including etiology, assessment and differential diagnosis, and treatment across the lifespan. The course will prepare students to understand and identify the overt and covert features of stuttering and their multifaceted impacts on the lived experience of stuttering. Students will develop an understanding of the SLPs role in the individualized assessment and treatment of people who stutter including crafting multidimensional therapy approaches (e.g. stutter affirming therapy, avoidance reduction, behavioral modification, and counseling skills) and advocacy. The course goal is to foster compassion and critical thinking to promote dynamic, individualized, and effective support for people who stutter and invested parties. During this course, students will obtain knowledge and skills as required by the CAA and ASHA accreditation standards through classroom discussion, assigned readings, clinical cases, lab classes and practical assignments.

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