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⚡️ Cluttering: What can we do? with Manon Spruit and Rutger Wilhelm

🔤 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.


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