Navigating Adult Stammering: 100 Points for Speech and Language Therapists

ISBN-13: 9781032012544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 230 str.

Trudy Stewart

Opis

This book provides SLT students, newly qualified, and beginning stammering specialists with 100 key points that will help form a strong foundation for their work supporting adults and teenagers who stammer. Full of advice and guidance to support effective practice, this is an essential resource for anybody new to this client group.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section A: The Person who Stammers  Section B: The therapist  Section C: The therapeutic relationship  Section D: Beginning sessions  Section E: Therapy: General points  Section F: Therapy: Fluency modification or speak more fluently approach  Section G: Therapy: Stammering modification or stammer more easily approach  Section H: Therapy: Stammer more proudly  Section I: Psychology approaches  Section J: Maintaining positive outcomes and planning for the re-emergence of roles and behaviours  Section K: Support Networks  Final Thoughts  Appendix 1: Formal assessments currently in use  Appendix 2: Cognitive Restructuring: learning to attach unhelpful thoughts

O autorze

Trudy Stewart is a retired consultant speech and language therapist. She studied in universities in Glasgow, Michigan State (USA) and Leeds. She worked in the UK with children and adults who stammer for nearly 40 years. Her last role was clinical lead of the Stammering Support Centre in Leeds. Trudy has taught undergraduate, graduate and specialist courses for clinicians in the UK, Europe and Sri Lanka, including on the European Clinical Specialisation in Fluency Disorders (ECSF) course. She has carried out research while a clinician, presented her work at international conferences and written several texts on stammering. She recently co-wrote and directed a play about stammering called ‘Unspoken.’