⚡️ Cluttering: Is it Really Stuttering?
with Manon Spruit
🔤 Description
The right diagnosis can change lives. A study showed that in 11% of the cases that sign in for stuttering therapy are eventually diagnosed with cluttering or the mix of cluttering and stuttering. These people often have had several therapies which did not (completely) "fit". This has a big influence on the person.
🎤 Presenter
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.
🎯 Agenda:
What is cluttering? What is stuttering?
Similarities and differences between stuttering and cluttering
How an SLP can determine the appropriate diagnosis
Listen and learn from a person who clutters, sharing their journey of misdiagnosis and ultimately self-understanding and identifying with cluttering.
💪 Take-Aways:
For the SLPs: you will learn about the differences and commonalities in stuttering and cluttering and how you can differentiate between them.
For general public: Do you feel that your speech is different, but the diagnosis of stuttering and stuttering therapy hasn't helped the way you wished? Consider if it is stuttering, or perhaps cluttering…?
