🔤 Description

Join us for this engaging masterclass (1-hour, online) filled with fresh ideas and practical tools to reduce stigma and use proven tools from the field of behavioral health to unlock new possibilities for people who stutter.

We’ll unpack the practice of Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) – an approach developed by Dr. Patrick Corrigan, a true expert in this field. HOP is a proven tool to help us make wise choices about sharing our stories, especially when it comes to mental health and recovery. And here’s the twist: we’ll show you how HOP isn’t limited to mental health – it can be adapted and applied for people who stutter. Michael Sugarman will walk us through the model and applications for people who stutter.

Whether you’re a speech therapist, someone who stutters, or just curious, this masterclass is your chance to explore valuable tools from the field of behavioral health. We have a lot to learn together.

Are you ready to acquire new tools to unlock the next steps in your stuttering journey?

Register today and we’ll send additional resources (PDF’s) to get started today.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit

🎯 Agenda

1. Considering the Pros and Cons of Disclosing

   1. My identity and mental illness.  

   2. Secrets are part of life.

   3. Weighing the costs and benefits of disclosing.

2. Different Ways to Disclose

   1. Five ways to come out.

   2. Testing a person for disclosure.  

   3. How might others respond to my disclosure?

3. Telling Your Story

   1. How to tell a personally meaningful story.  

   2. Who are peers that might help me with coming out?  

   3. Review how telling my story felt. 

4. Putting it all together to move forward

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

• Develop your understanding of “disclosure,” appreciating both the benefits and liabilities

• Discover multiple ways to “disclose”

• Identify readiness (or unreadiness) for “disclosure”

• Beginning to draft and craft a personal story to fit the person and place

🎤 Presenter

Michael Sugarman has been an activist in the stuttering and disability communities since the 1970s. He was co-founder and former Executive Director of the National Stuttering Project and former chair of the International Stuttering Association. Michael wrote for academic journals and promoted people-first language and stuttering awareness in “It’s Ok to Stutter” (Journal of Fluency Disorders) and the Perniciousness of Labels (Transactional Analysis Journal). As a medical social worker, he recently updated his children’s book, The Adventures of Phil and Dotty. Michael currently co-facilitates a peer support group and is co-writing an article on peer and professional facilitation of support groups, emphasizing mindfulness communication, self-care skills, and resilience.

🔤 Description

Self-disclosure is not as simple as it seems. This workshop will present a format for successful self-advocacy, based on research and real-life examples. The workshop will engage participants to explore self-advocacy through the lens of people who stutter and allies. And we will provide space to experience the do's and don'ts of disclosure through interactive role play with honest and constructive feedback. This workshop will offer a foundational introduction to “why” self-advocacy matters and the practical “how to” to give participants practical knowledge and skills to improve their communication experiences - for both conversational partners.

​🎤 Presenters

Jennifer Scharf, M.A. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist and a person who stutters. Jen is the founder of Speech Works SRQ, a private speech and stuttering therapy practice in Southwest Florida serving children, teens and adults. Jen is an NSA Chapter Leader for the Adult and Family chapters in Sarasota, FL and a cohort member of Transcending Stuttering. Jen lives in Sarasota, FL with her husband, 3 children and 2 dogs.

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC-SLP is a leading clinician, educator, and researcher at Schneider Speech (personalized speech therapy) and faculty at UC Riverside School of Medicine. He's a podcaster and guide at Transcending Stuttering, passionate about empowering people to be their best selves. He's a runner, outdoors enthusiast, and enjoys family time with his wife and kids.

Greg Pandise is a person who stutters, sales professional in financial services, and former college athlete. When he is not working he enjoys training for ultrarunning and triathlon, doing outdoor activities and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, finding a great book to read and coaching lacrosse. Greg has been a person who stutters since he was young and has experiences with speech therapy in his early years and even through his teenage and early adult life. He is grateful for everything stuttering has taught him and uses the lessons learned to deal with adversity, achieve his goals, and fostering a positive mental attitude. He loves staying involved in the stuttering community and works with a couple of non-profits and is a mentor at TranscendingX. 

🔤 Description

Stuttering is an emotional journey, and its ups and downs can leave many PWS and loved ones feeling frustrated. But there is hope. Our interactive workshop will include true stories of adversity and show how they found their way. Coming to terms with stuttering is about learning how to dance with your stutter, not fighting it.

Through small group discussions and exercises, facilitated by our team, participants will explore a 4-part framework: self-knowledge, self-adjustment, self-acceptance, and self-advocacy. Discover how to build resilience, identify strengths, and tap into inner resources. Leave with practical takeaways and renewed hope. 

​🎤 Presenters

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC-SLP is a leading clinician, educator, and researcher at Schneider Speech (personalized speech therapy) and faculty at UC Riverside School of Medicine. He's a podcaster and guide at Transcending Stuttering, passionate about empowering people to be their best selves. He's a runner, outdoors enthusiast, and enjoys family time with his wife and kids.

Matthew Bernucca is a 35 year old Florida native. He went to high school in Tampa and university in New York City. Matthew started the project Person Who Stutters. It’s a website exclusive only to PWS to record themselves reading stories out loud. Matthew loves being outside fly fishing, playing golf, and exercising. 

Greg Pandise is a person who stutters, sales professional in financial services, and former college athlete. When he is not working he enjoys training for ultrarunning and triathlon, doing outdoor activities and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, finding a great book to read and coaching lacrosse. Greg has been a person who stutters since he was young and has experiences with speech therapy in his early years and even through his teenage and early adult life. He is grateful for everything stuttering has taught him and uses the lessons learned to deal with adversity, achieve his goals, and fostering a positive mental attitude. He loves staying involved in the stuttering community and works with a couple of non-profits and is a mentor at TranscendingX. 

🔤 Description

Identity is a complex phenomenon and stuttering can affect our identities in a variety of ways. How do we come to understand ourselves? How do we come to understand ourselves as individuals who stutter? How might our identities change over time? This presentation will discuss factors that influence our identities, intersectionality of multiple identities, and ways that individuals who stutter think about identity.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit

​🎤 Presenter

Dr. Derek E. Daniels is an associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on stuttering. Derek is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Fluency Disorders, and an assistant editor for Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders. He is a person who stutters and conducts research on psychosocial aspects of stuttering. In particular, Derek's research focuses on public perceptions of stuttering, and factors that influence the psychosocial experiences of individuals who stutter. He is particularly interested in identity, stigma, intersectionality, self-help groups, and culturally responsive practices as they pertain to individuals who stutter and individuals with communication challenges. In addition, he is also interested in qualitative research methods, sociocultural (Vygotskian) theory, and social constructionism. Derek is a native of Houston, TX, and currently enjoys urban life in Detroit. He is a former President of the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA), and currently serves as MSHA's Vice-President (VP) for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

🎯 Agenda

1. I will discuss different perspectives on identity and self-definition

2. I will discuss different factors of influence on one's identity

3. I will discuss intersectionality and how it applies to identity

4. I will discuss my personal journey navigating my identities

5. I will invite discussion on how others think about identity for themselves and their clients
   
   

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

1. Participants will reflect on what identity means to them - How do you define different aspects of yourself? Which identities matter to you the most, and why?

2. Participants will think about the different means by which identities can be formed, influenced, and shaped.

3. Participants will think about ways to facilitate positive identities for the clients they work with

>> TranscendingX podcast episode with Dr. Derek Daniels
Click to listen See episode notes

🔤 Description

In-service professional development for therapists at Shandy Clinic in Colorado, USA.

​🎤 Presenter
Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC-SLP is a leading clinician, educator, and researcher at Schneider Speech (personalized speech therapy) and faculty at UC Riverside School of Medicine. He's a podcaster and guide at Transcending Stuttering, passionate about empowering people to be their best selves. He's a runner, outdoors enthusiast, and enjoys family time with his wife and kids.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

🔤 Description

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Many are afraid of stuttering. Through understanding what we’re afraid of, we can demystify stuttering, reduce stigma and increase healthy courage and social inclusion for all stakeholders.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit

🎯 Agenda

• Who is afraid? Parents, SLPs, Teachers, Children, Teens and Adults

• What are we afraid of?

• Can we co-create better terms of understanding and relating to stuttering?

• What would life/world look like with less stigma and more inclusion.

  • What would we hear?

  • What would we feel?
    

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

• The word "gift" has two meaning in the Swedish language: "married" and "poison".

  • Understand the duality of the "stuttering is a gift"

• "Children do as you do, not as you're saying."

  • Identify practical ways we (Parents, SLPs, Teachers and People Who Stutter) can reframe stuttering.

    • How to talk about stuttering

    • How to adapt behavior towards stuttering

• Explore the lived experiences, cognitive beliefs and attitudes and emotional feelings school-age children and teens who stutter
  

​🎤 Presenter

Anita Blom, Keynote Speaker, Award-winning Stuttering Activist and Proud Person Who Stutters, born and raised in the Netherlands, is living in Sweden. She worked as an operation manager for the Workers’ Educational Association. She has been a board member, including chairperson, of stuttering organizations on local, national, European and International level, and an advisory board member of several international stuttering organizations. She was a national and international keynote speaker on stuttering, had her own stuttering consultant company, was one of the Stutter Social hosts, was a project leader of several major stuttering projects, and twice Member of the Year. She was also a leader of national and international children and youth camps for over 20 years. Anita, aka Scatsis, has stuttered since she was 9 and had a troublesome youth because of her stuttering. She went from being silent, to giving stuttering a voice, from pre-school children to the European Parliament, now inspiring people who stutter of all ages, they can make a difference. Do check out her papers to the ISAD online conferences. Due to health issues she now has to take it slow, but is still an inspiration to many, acknowledged by Voice Unearthed on the Wall Of Inspiration, STAMMA, and many others. Her slogan, is used all around the world; “Sure I stutter. What are you good at?”

Anita has been proudly associated with Skaraborgs Stuttering Chapter, Swedish Stuttering Association, Stamily, and the International Stuttering Association, and International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD).

“Inspirational influencer" - Twice awarded as "Member of the year" Video here.

Awarded as "Inspiration of the Year" for starting a swimming school for women.

We are grateful to Anita for her contributions on the Advisory Team at Transcending Stuttering and significant contributions to the eBook and so much more.

🔤 Description

Increasing teacher education and support of students who stutter: we're in this together!

🎯 Agenda

• Discuss three strategies contributing to the production of the free educational video Kids Who Stutter Support Teachers: Branch Out

• Expand understanding of varied perceptions, emotions, and experiences of school-age children and teens who stutter

• Utilize setting relevant strategies to continue to help educate teachers about stuttering.

  
  
  

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

• Demonstrate understanding of perceptions of school-age children and teens about stuttering and communicating in the classroom setting.

• Describe three strategies utilized at Camp Shout Out to assist campers in sharing personal stories.

• Utilize setting appropriate strategies to help further educate teachers about stuttering.

​🎤 Presenter
Kristin Chmela is a speech language pathologist and board certified specialist who has worked primarily with children of all ages who stutter at her clinic Chmela Communication Center in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. She is a lecturer, author, and is co-founder and co-director of Camp Shout Out, a therapeutic experience and training program for kids who stutter ages 8-18 as well as graduate students and speech therapists. Kristin has completed 400 hours of yoga training and is a certified mindfulness instructor. She spends most of her time working with individuals who stutter, clutter, and have other fluency disorders. She recently directed and co-produced Kids Who Stutter Support Teachers: Branch Out (see below) and continues to integrate self-advocacy into therapy with her clients.

📚 Additional Resources:

Prior to the Masterclass, participants are asked to view Kids Who Stutter Support Teachers: Branch Out and download the PDF Student/Teacher/SLP Advocacy Guide. The video is approximately 22 minutes.

• Generate 1-2 reflections

• Pose 1-2 questions related to the film/advocacy guide.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

🔤 Description

I frequently get questions from clinicians. They say, "What do I do with this kid with ADHD?!”
In this masterclass, we will walk through clinical decision-making regarding attention. We will collect your real-life cases (before), so this masterclass can be extremely practical, with case-based discussion.

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

• Consider the impact attention has in your cases

• Explore strategies to help you do better therapy.

• Common ways these characteristics impact the effectiveness of therapy, and what we can do about it.

• “Clinical rounds” to discuss ways to lessen the impact of attention/focus concerns.

​🎤 Presenter
Joseph Donaher, Ph.D., is the Academic and Research Program Director of the Center for Childhood Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Donaher is an Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a board-certified specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Currently, Dr. Donaher serves on the Editorial Review Board for ASHA’s Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders and the Research and Publications Committee of the International Fluency Association. His clinical and research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of school-age children who stutter and disfluency patterns secondary to neurological conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

📚 Additional Resources:

• ADHD, Stuttering and the Shortest RB in the NFL with Dr. Joseph Donaher, Transcending Stuttering Podcast, Episode #25
  Listen here. Watch video here. Transcript here.

• ADHD and Stuttering, Stuttertalk Podcast
  Listen here.

• ADHD and Stuttering (webpage with downloadable), Stuttering Foundation of America
  Downloadable here. Training video here. Trailer here.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

🔤 Description

My Journey from Stuttering to Professional Speaking

Larry Stein stuttered for 50 years, compromising his career and other parts of his life to avoid stuttering. After a few decades of stuttering severely, his speech improved quite a bit in his 30s and 40s due to speaking more in the workplace. Then, in his mid-50s, in an effort to save the business of his dreams, Larry made one last-ditch attempt to improve his speech.

Over the next two years:

• relearned to speak

• addressed the psychological impacts of his stuttering

• took steps to take on speaking challenges that once paralyzed him

• experienced the surprising impact in his personal and professional life

While not a perfect speaker, he has gained the confidence in his speech to build his dream business and speak professionally to business groups. He has a book about his journey with stuttering coming out in the fall.

Bio:

Larry Stein stuttered for 50 years, compromising his career and other parts of his life to avoid stuttering. After a few decades of stuttering severely, his speech improved quite a bit in his 30s and 40s due to speaking more in the workplace. Then, in his mid-50s, in an effort to save the business of his dreams, Larry made one last-ditch attempt to improve his speech. Over the next two years, Larry relearned to speak, addressed the psychological impacts of his stuttering and took one small step after another to take on speaking challenges that once paralyzed him. While not a perfect speaker, he has gained the confidence in his speech to build his dream business and speak professionally to business groups. He mentors people who stutter from all over the world at no charge and has a book about his journey with stuttering coming out in the fall. Larry lives in Chicago with his wife and has two grown sons and two grandchildren.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

🔤 Description
Studies show that 11% of stuttering therapy cases are eventually diagnosed with cluttering, or a mix of cluttering and stuttering. Many people have repeated therapies that did not (completely) "fit.” Failing therapy can be a negative influence on people who clutter. We can do better. Learn how.

🎯 Agenda:

1. What is important in the treatment of Cluttering (from the view of the client and the therapist)?

2. What does not work and why not?

3. What does work and why?

4. What are important goals and what are goals that can be reached?

💪 Take-Aways:

1. What to do if therapy goals are not reached

2. What is important to look at when goals are not reached or not reached to satisfaction

3. Find different options to reach goals in therapy

🎤 Presenters

Manon Spruit, MSc. is an SLP in a private practice since 1995, and took over the practice in 2000 turning the practice into a specialized center for Speech and Language Therapy and Fluency Therapy. Manon lectured at several universities of applied sciences and schools for SLPs in The Netherlands, Germany and Poland, presented workshops on topics of stuttering and cluttering around Europe and North America. In 2021, she expanded the center for Speech and Language Therapy and Fluency Therapy to include specialization in speech and language problems in people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

Rutger Wilhelm is chair-elect of the International Cluttering Association. Also, he is board member of the Dutch Stuttering Association and has served the board of the International Stuttering Association (ISA) in the past. Rutger has published a book about his experiences with cluttering: Too fast for words.

🏆 Neuroscience and Medicine: In Research and Practice (Part 2)

​🔤 Description

Neuroscience understanding of stuttering.

🎤 Presenter

Gerald Maguire, MD is Professor and Founding Chief of Psychiatry, American University of Health Sciences School of Medicine—Signal Hill, CA USA and Principal Investigator—CenExel CIT research. He is the former Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the UCR School of Medicine until recently he retired from the UC system. Dr. Maguire provides comprehensive, personalized, and compassionate psychiatric care for his patients.

He is board certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves as the Co-Chair of the Society for the Neuroscience of Stuttering. Dr. Maguire has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 2009 and is recognized as the world’s authority on the medical treatment of stuttering.

Dr. Maguire has published his research in several leading journals and has delivered hundreds of invited presentations nationally and internationally on the topics of stuttering, bipolar disorder, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions.

Dr. Maguire is also an Advisory Team member at Transcending Stuttering.

💪 Attendee Take-Aways:

1. Describe what is known of the neurodevelopment differences in those who stutter

2. Summarize how biologic therapies for stuttering may augment speech and psychotherapy

3. Identify potential future models of stuttering therapy

📚 Additional Resources:

• Stuttering Neuroscience 101 with Dr. Gerald Maguire, Transcending Stuttering Podcast, Episode #22

• The New Neuroscience of Stuttering, Knowable, September 2020

• The Pharmacologic Treatment of Stuttering and Its Neuropharmacologic Basis, Frontiers in Neuroscience, March 2020

• The Stuttering Mind, Scientific American, August 2021

• Investigation of Risperidone Treatment Associated With Enhanced Brain Activity in Patients Who Stutter, Frontiers in Neuroscience, February 2021

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

For now, check out the podcast episode #22.
Listen here or watch Youtube video below.

🏆 Neuroscience and Medicine: In Research and Practice (Part 1)

​🔤 Description

Neuroscience understanding of stuttering.

🎤 Presenter

Gerald Maguire, MD is Professor and Founding Chief of Psychiatry, American University of Health Sciences School of Medicine—Signal Hill, CA USA and Principal Investigator—CenExel CIT research. He is the former Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the UCR School of Medicine until recently he retired from the UC system. Dr. Maguire provides comprehensive, personalized, and compassionate psychiatric care for his patients.

He is board certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves as the Co-Chair of the Society for the Neuroscience of Stuttering. Dr. Maguire has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 2009 and is recognized as the world’s authority on the medical treatment of stuttering.

Dr. Maguire has published his research in several leading journals and has delivered hundreds of invited presentations nationally and internationally on the topics of stuttering, bipolar disorder, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions.

Dr. Maguire is also an Advisory Team member at Transcending Stuttering.

💪 Attendee Take-Aways:

1. Describe what is known of the neurodevelopment differences in those who stutter

2. Summarize how biologic therapies for stuttering may augment speech and psychotherapy

3. Identify potential future models of stuttering therapy

📚 Additional Resources:

• Stuttering Neuroscience 101 with Dr. Gerald Maguire, Transcending Stuttering Podcast, Episode #22

• The New Neuroscience of Stuttering, Knowable, September 2020

• The Pharmacologic Treatment of Stuttering and Its Neuropharmacologic Basis, Frontiers in Neuroscience, March 2020

• The Stuttering Mind, Scientific American, August 2021

• Investigation of Risperidone Treatment Associated With Enhanced Brain Activity in Patients Who Stutter, Frontiers in Neuroscience, February 2021

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.

For now, check out the podcast episode #22.
Listen here or watch Youtube video below.

⚡️ Energy Farming ⚡️🚜 with Dan Greenwald

🎤 Presenter

Dan Greenwald is a teacher, a mentor, and founder of ThirtyTenZero, a strategic guidance system designed to harness one’s self-awareness to get what they really want. He is a person who stutters and now views his stutter as “a light on his dashboard.”

He is a friend and mentor to Uri Schneider and leading advisor at Transcending Stuttering.

🔤 Description

Energy Farming ⚡️🚜

Every creature engages its waking life with a certain level of energy. Life-force energy is measured in something called “STATE.” The state a creature engages life determines how we thrive or just survive - in anything we’re aiming to do.

Become an Energy Farmer and choose the energy with which you engage life.

You’ll learn…

• Why some people thrive and others barely survive even though all humans have the same innate creature power → Self-Awareness

• The importance of your life-force energy and how to measure it with something called “state”

• How the state you’re in influences your mind’s stories and ultimately your actions

• How to immediately identify the state you’re in and quickly shift out of it

• What your life looks like living energized by a strong state

You’ll create…

An energy farming⚡️🚜  plan, which lines up your easy-to-win weekly actions, that when done, powers you to engage life with strong energy.

The Energy Farming⚡️🚜  weekly tracker acts as 1. your guide, and also as 2. your weekly review grounded in your data, so you know what to celebrate and where to shift.

As with all farming, it’s all about consistency.

You’ll feel…

After one week of Energy Farming⚡️🚜  you will see and feel how your life is just different.

⚡️ The Power of Art with Sarah Beth Solomont

🔤 Description
Attendees will participate (hands-on) and learn two art techniques. We will gain understanding and skills to appreciate how art creation builds connections with clients, as well as deepening self-awareness.

🎤 Presenter
Sarah Beth Solomont received her Master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. Since then, Sarah Beth has been using her creative gifts to facilitate psychological healing and deeper self-understanding by means of art, play, and other forms of self-expression in her private practice, group settings, and professional trainings.

🎯 Agenda:

1. Introducing expressive art therapy - the use of art therapeutically

2. How to introduce a new technique in the treatment

3. Introduce a warm-up: scribble drawing - attendees will experience doing the activity and process in the group.

4. Introduce art structure: bridge drawing - attendees will experience and process in the group

5. How to process an art structure for deeper self-awareness

💪 Take-Aways:

1. A better understanding of how creating art helps in therapy

2. Concrete art techniques to use with their patients for connection and self-awareness

3. How to process art creations in treatment with patients
   

*Attendees will be asked to have available for themselves basic art-creating materials during the class.

**SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.