Enhancing Care for Students Who Stutter: Collaborative Strategies for SLPs and School Counselors
This presentation by Dr. Daniel Hudock explores the vital collaboration between Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and School Counselors (SCs) in addressing the complex needs of Students Who Stutter (SWS). Attendees will learn about the characteristics of stuttering, effective treatment strategies, and how to integrate services within the school setting to support student success. Dr. Hudock will discuss the roles and responsibilities of SLPs and SCs, challenges to collaboration, and best practices to foster cooperation and advocacy for SWS, emphasizing the importance of a unified approach in schools.
Enhancing Care for Students Who Stutter: Collaborative Strategies for SLPs and School Counselors
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Presentation Transcript
Collaborative care between Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and School Counselors (SCs) for treating Students Who Stutter (SWS) Presented by: Daniel Hudock, Ph.D.
Introductions • Daniel Hudock, Ph.D. • Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Idaho State University • Life long Person Who Stutters
What is Stuttering • General background • Overt characteristics (what we see and hear) • Covert characteristics (what we don’t see) • How it is treated
Why SLPs and SCs • Best practice strategies for collaboration • Integration of services to meet the multiple needs of Students Who Stutter (SWS)
Training Roles and Responsibilities of SCs • Evolution of SC profession • American School Counseling Association (ASCA) National Model • Domains • Academic • Personal / Social • Career • Themes • Advocacy • Leadership • Systemic Change • Collaboration
Training Roles and Responsibilities of SLPs • Training requirements of SLPs • 400 supervised hours during the Masters program • Masters Degree (typically 60 credit hours) • Passing the Praxis • 1260 hours of a supervised clinical fellowship • Continuing Education Units • Treat individuals with speech, language, cognitive, processing, literacy, and swallowing deficits from birth to geriatric • School-Based SLPs caseloads (90 on average) • Was there adequate training on working with SWS or collaboration? • What were you taught to focus on?
Challenges to Inter-Professional Collaboration • Differences in how professionals are trained and service implications • SLPs – Medical Model • SCs – Developmental / Wellness Models • Time constraints • Large caseloads • Others?
Ways to Overcome These Barriers • Understand each others’ training, roles, and responsibilities • Have a positive attitude • Don’t be to defensive of your professional territory • Find time to meet • Ask your administration for time allocations for collaborative care meetings (explain how this will aide in student outcomes and efficiency) • Discuss collaborative care about student needs prior to, after, or during Problem Solving Team, IEP, or 504b meetings • Develop a cooperative teacher in-service
Relationship Between Stuttering and Bullying • Prevalence rates • Propensities for bullies and being bullied • Effects of being bullied • Types of bullying • Relationship between bullying and stuttering • What the research says
Prevention and Intervention • Classroom presentation about stuttering that integrate the SWS • Langevin & Prasad, (2012) • Role playing helps reduce the effect from past experiences of being bullied • Psycho-educational dramas • Create scenarios and play the roles out then talk about emotions and reactions • SWS • Communication partner • Teach • Bystanders • Anti-bullying groups / inclusionary groups