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"The Stutter-Free Speech Program" A Hands-On Training Workshop

CALL: (949) 552-5523

Presented by: Mark Power, M.A., CCC
Director - Power Stuttering Center, Orange County, CA

* Fluency Coordinator - Los Angeles County Office of Education

* Adjunct Faculty - California State University, Long Beach

* ASHA Board Recognized Fluency Specialist

* CEU Provider - California Department of Consumer Affairs
"Hands-On" Training and Practice for Each New Skill
Learn how to:

* Slow down the speech rate of your fluency students using audio-taped examples which you can take back to your school.

* Show your students how to produce "continuous phonation".

* Develop "transfer contracts" with your students in school and at home.

* Train parents in "Home Prevention Programs"

INSTRUCTOR: Mark Power, M.A., CCC-SLP
Mark Power is a speech pathologist who has trained clinicians in public schools, hospitals and private practice in stuttering therapy for the past 15 years. He is on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach and maintains a private practice in Orange County, California. Mr. Power is the California State Coordinator of the ASHA Special Interest Division, Fluency and Fluency Disorders, and serves on its Task Force for Fluency Services in the Schools. Mark is recognized by ASHA as a Fluency Specialist and is a CEU Provider for California. He has presented hands-on training workshops to many school district speech departments in California and across the nation. Mark was himself a severe stutterer for most of his life and is dedicated to providing practical training so that effective stuttering treatment can be delivered to all people who stutter.

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Stutter-Free Speech Program was developed by Dr. George Shames at the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. The program teaches children and adults a new way of speaking which is incompatible with stuttering. Workshop participants will learn to produce slow speech rates and continuous phonation using training tapes as models, which they take with them to use with their clients. Using a guided practice model, participants will experience rate changes during reading and conversation. Finally, behavioral contracts are provided which facilitate transfer of new speech behaviors to the client's natural speaking environment. The instructor completed this program himself in 1982 and has since been trained by Dr. Shames to be a facilitator.

LEARNER OUTCOMES:
* Participants will learn the rationale for selecting the therapy program most suitable for their individual client.
* Participants will learn how to conduct the establishment, transfer and maintenance phases of the therapy program.
* Participants will experience the programs themselves before presenting them to their clients.
* Participants will role-play both client and clinician. Participants will leave the workshop ready to implement effective therapy for stuttering.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:
Speech Language Pathologists working with clients who stutter in public schools.
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SCHEDULE FOR TRAINING PROGRAM

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Distribute materials
9:00 - 9:30 Orientation
Video Tape Overview
9:30 - 10:30 Training Phase I - Volitional Control
  • Rate control
  • Continuous phonation
  • Practice words lists using audiocassette tapes provided for modeling various rates of speech
10:30 - 11:15 Practice Phase I
Partners practice student and clinician roles.
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Training Phase II - Self Management
Student learns to change rates and signal monitoring
12:00 - 12:30 Practice Phase II
Partners practice student and clinician roles
12:30 -1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 Training Phase III - Transfer
Behavioral contracts sheets for monitored speech outside the therapy room are developed and evaluated.

2:15 - 2:45 Practice Phase III
Partners practice student and clinician roles
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:30 Questions and Answers

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
California Speech Hearing Association - Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA - Seminar - Principles of Fluency Shaping
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association – Fluency Boot Camp, Boston, MA
California State University, Fullerton 3rd Annual Fluency Conference
“Tahoe Time” Speech and Audiology Conference, Lake Tahoe, NV
International Fluency Association – 2nd World Congress, San Francisco, CA – A Training Model Demonstrating Guided Practice for the Stutter-Free Speech Program
American Speech-Language-Hearing-Association – Special Interest Division Fluency and Fluency Disorders Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ Fluency Outcome in the Public Schools
California Speech Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA - Short Course – The Stutter-Free Speech Program: A Training Model Using Role-play and Guided Practice
Stuttering Foundation of America Conference, Long Beach, CA – Stuttering Therapy: Practical Ideas for the School Clinician
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