Handouts and Assignments

It is expected that if you use any of these materials for your courses, you will give appropriate credit to those who have generously provided them. It is also understood that you can update, tweak, correct any material or outdated links to websites.

• You may wish to use an older form of SID4 Clinician Competencies - Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering at the beginning of your graduate seminar on stuttering, and again as part of the final class evaluation.
  • to help students know what is expected of clinicians in the area of fluency,
  • to give early information of areas the class as a group feels less competetent, and
  • to measure change in self-reported comfort level regarding stuttering assessment and treatment.
• Gary Rentschler's Clinician's Guide to the Stuttering Clinic, 2014 50 pages of information created to support his academic and clinical teaching in the Speech-Language Pathology program at Duquesne University. Placed here with permission of Dr. Rentschler.
• Stuttering by J. David Williams - a formerly unpublished handout that Dr. Williams wrote for his stuttering course in the 1980's. Interesting reading. Have students evaluate for what is the same and for any changes in thinking about stuttering in the past 30 years.
• Handouts/assignments shared by J.Scott Yaruss, formerly from University of Pittsburgh
  • Schedule
  • Learning Objectives
  • Daily Questions
  • Practice Activities
  • Scoring Forms
  • Resources
• Assignments shared by Charlie Osborne, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point
  • Stuttering Assessment Project
  • Design a Multiple-Choice Test Assignment
  • Exploring Your Own Culture Assignment
  • ISAD Online Conference Assignment
  • Poster Session Assignment
• Pseudostuttering assignment
  • Pseudostuttering assignment from Charlie Osborne, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point. Copies of these student projects from 2003 to present are online in The Student Journal of Fluency Disorders
  • Howard Schwartz article about pseudostuttering assignment, Schwartz's Stuttering Police: A Proactive Program To Educate The Public About Stuttering - ISAD online conference paper, 2003
  • My Personal Battle by Masha Zaslavsky, an essay about a pseudostuttering assignment.
• Class handouts from the S.B. Hood Library of Teaching Materials includes among other materials:
  • In html format
    • Concepts and Terms
    • Learning Theory
    • Suggestions for Parents
    • STUTTERING in Children and Adults: Selected Therapy Considerations: Possible Problem Areas to Explore and Possible Things to Do
    • Therapy for the Covert PWS
  • In PDF format
    • Short term goals for adults
    • Covert workshop chart
    • Disfluency Analysis
    • Interiorized/Exteriorized Stuttering based on works by Douglass and Quarrington
    • Kids at Risk
    • Moment of Stuttering
    • Sheehan Therapy
    • Silverman Influences
    • Crossword puzzle - Hood's Humorously Hidden Hints, Clues, Solution

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added August 5, 2007
last updated March 28, 2018