77: The One About Stuttering With Nina Reeves
Listen to the podcast here.
Today I am joined by award-winningfluency specialist, Nina Reeves! Nina currently serves as staff fluencyspecialist for several school districts near Dallas, Texas. Her privatepractice is dedicated to children and adolescents who stutter, and she travelsextensively, presenting training workshops on topics related to fluencydisorders.
Nina's contributions to service delivery in the schools was recognized with the 2013 Rolland Van Hattum Award for Contributions in the Schools from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. And at this year’s ASHA 2019, she received the highest honor that ASHA gives to recognize school-based SLPs: the ASHA Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions in Preschool-Grade 12 Settings.
Topics/Questions:
- What tests do yourecommend SLPs use to screen and assess a young child who exhibitsdisfluencies?
- Why should SLPs needto be moving away from writing goals for percentages of fluent speech?
- What to say and whatnot to say to a child who stutters.
- Therapy resources tohelp school-based SLPs get started and use evidenced-based strategies whenworking with students who stutter.
Getting To Know You:
- Do you have any goodstories or therapy fails you want to share?
- What are 3 things youcan’t work without?
- What do you enjoydoing outside of work?
- What is a piece ofadvice you would tell your younger self?
Links:
Stuttering Therapy Resources!