Assessment Core

Continued from Developmental Stuttering Curriculum Outline (Click Here to Return)

C. ASSESSMENT CORE:

1. Goals of assessment
    a. Purpose of assessment [why is the client/family coming to you?]
    b. Generating diagnostic questions [what do you want to learn from the client/family?]
2. Interviewing/Case history
    a. Key questions [Eliciting the client’s/family’s narrative/story]
    b. Fundamentals of counseling during interviewing
3. Assessment measures/tools
    a. Pre-assessment measures
    b. (Non)Standardized assessment

RESOURCES [see others in Treatment Core]:

Streaming Videos:

Assessing Preschoolers for Stuttering (Ellen M. Kelly)

Moving from Assessment to Intervention Planning (Sheryl Gottwald)

Scoring Disfluencies* (Diane Parris)

Making Evaluations Easier: Combined Child Fluency and Language Assessment Using Free FluCalc and KidEval Software (Nan Bernstein Ratner)

Insurance Reimbursement for Stuttering Therapy: Dos, Don'ts, and Give It a Shots (Katie Gore)

Podcast:

Using the Vanderbilt Responses to Your Child’s Speech (VRYCS) to Learn How Parents of CWS View Their Interactions (Cara Singer and Ellen Kelly)

    c. Assessment of related areas/concerns/developmental milestones/abilities
4. Differential diagnosis
5. Prognosis
    a. Readiness for change
    b. Support networks
    c. Preschool prognosis for recovery vs. persistence
6. Recommendations
    a. Next steps for client/family
    b. Referrals
7. Follow-Up

Streaming Video:

Stuttering Therapy: What Needs to Change and Who Decides? (Patricia Zebrowski)

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA’s All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

Bob Love

Bob Love has dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.