Addressing the Iceberg of Stuttering: Strategies to Support Acceptance and Openness

Addressing the Iceberg of Stuttering: Strategies to Support Acceptance and Openness is organized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Dates:
12/5/2020 to 12/3/2025

Description:
This webinar will provide practical, evidence-based strategies that target the psychological, emotional, and social domains of stuttering (the lower, underwater mass of the iceberg) to help clients progress from tendencies of avoidance to acceptance and openness. The speakers will discuss how to integrate basic interpersonal counseling strategies into person-centered treatment and then will guide attendees through creating acceptance-based holistic goals and objectives and documenting progress.

Learning Objectives:
You will be able to:

• integrate holistic evidence-based strategies to enhance your clients' acceptance and openness toward their stuttering
• utilize basic interpersonal counseling strategies in your person-centered treatment to validate and support clients’ lived experiences
• create acceptance-based goals and objectives for stuttering intervention and document progress