Working with Parents of Children who Stutter
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This text-based course is a written transcript of the course, “Working with Parents of Children Who Stutter: Contextual Assessment and Management”, presented by Craig Coleman, M.A., CCC-SLP, BRS-FD on October 3, 2011.
>> Amy Hansen: Welcome to this Expert e‑Seminar, “Working with Parents of Children who Stutter: Contextual Assessment and Management” presented by Craig Coleman. It is an honor to introduce Craig Coleman. Craig received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. He has served as President of the Pennsylvania Speech, Language, Hearing Association and on the legislative council of the American Speech‑Language Hearing Association. Craig currently serves as a clinical coordinator in the Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is also Co‑Director of the Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania. Craig is a board recognized specialist in fluency disorders and currently he is the President‑Elect of the Pennsylvania Speech and Hearing Association. Welcome back, Craig, and thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us today.
>> Craig Coleman: Thanks, Amy. I want to thank everybody for participating today and taking the time out to join us. This is some new material for me in terms of presenting and I think these are things that we already knew a little bit, but I think laying it out in this way will make sense to you on how to implement it therapeutically. I think that is taking the next step.
Before I go too much further, there are two great books that I would recommend. I was able to piecemeal together a lot of what I’m going to talk about today from these books and use this information as a starting point for the discussion we're going to have. One of the books is titled "The Great Psychotherapy Debate" by Bruce Wampold. It is an excellent source for some of the stuff we're going to talk about today. Even though it is based on a lot of psychotherapy, I think the principles that we're going to go through today really make a lot of sense for what we do from a speech‑language pathology standpoint. I think a lot of this information gets overlooked in our field at times. Another really great book is "Nurture Shock." This is a really good resource in terms of triggering some different ways of looking at children as a whole and demystifying some of the things that we believe in. So I hope this will be a fun presentation and an informative presentation for everyone.
