2024

Joint

World Congress on Stutt­er­ing and Clutter­ing

Pre-Congress CLAN Workshop (May 15th)

We look forward to an additional workshop titled, “CLAN workshop: how to use CLAN to analyze fluency and language behaviors in spoken samples” which will take place Wednesday, May 15th from 9am-12pm. Please see the workshop description, registration information, and information about the presenter in this post.

2024 Congress sponsorship

We invite you to consider sponsoring WSCO’s 2024 World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering.

Pre-Congress RESTART-DCM Workshop (May 15th)

We are pleased to introduce this year’s Pre-Congress workshop titled, “The RESTART-DCM treatment for pre-school children who stutter: an introduction” which will take place Wednesday, May 15th from 1–5pm. Please see the workshop abstract, information about the presenters, and references in this post.

Early Bird Price Extension and Congress Refund Policy

To facilitate your planning to attend the congress, early bird pricing is now available through February 16th, 2024. Please remember that registration closes on April 1st, 2024.

Financial support available

Financial support from the US NIH-NIDCD available to students and junior researchers to attend the Congress.

Hotels in Austin for the 2024 Congress

The Congress Organizing Committee has collated a list hotels in the vicinity of the Congress venue.

Culturally Responsive Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering & Cluttering: The Why and the How

Continuous growth in cultural and linguistic diversity influences service delivery to individuals from diverse backgrounds, including individuals who stutter and clutter.

Disfluency as an act of love

For us to love each other we must first know each other. We come to know each other through communication, the purpose of which is communion. Traditionally, we think of stuttering and cluttering as impairing this communion.

Promoting equity and social justice through counseling services: Lessons learned from 15 years of prevention services with underserved Latinx populations

Underserved populations within a broad range of diversity indicators (e.g., income, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation) continue to experience significant barriers to access high quality counseling services.

Redefining Stuttering from Biological Perspectives

This talk aims to redefine developmental stuttering from a holistic perspective. Evidence from recent genetic discoveries, underlying and shared biological mechanisms, and medical health profiling supports broadening the recognized clinical profile of stuttering.

Resilience as a Protective Factor in Stuttering Development

Resilience science over the last 50 years has converged to show that “resilience” refers to a complex and dynamic set of internal and external factors that promote positiveoutcomes in the face of various sources of chronic adversity.