Exploring Research

In this4th episode you'll listen to Dr Michelle Swift, a speech and language therapist based in Adelaide, Australia. She is Senior Speech Pathologist & Clinical Director at Swift Speech, Stuttering & Voice in Adelaide, Australia and Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia (UniSA) . She is currently conducting research with the University of South Australia with her colleagues Julia Whittaker, Eleanor Brasted, Bianca Wagnitz and Anna Bouras entitled "How can we ensure that treatments for stammering are inclusive and promote neurodiversity?".
In this interview conducted at the ICA World Congress in Poland in September 2023 she details her research and proposes a general reflection on more inclusive practices that respect people's wishes.

Website: https://swiftspeech.clinic/
Research page : https://swiftspeech.clinic/pages/research

Dans cet episode, je vous présente deux articles qui débattent de l’utilisation du terme « fluence ». Dans le premier article, Seth Tichenor, Christopher Constantino et Scott Yaruss expliquent comment ce terme a pu être source de stigmatisation pour les personnes qui bégaient. Ils plaident pour une utilisation différente du terme et pour la mise en valeur de l’expérience globale des personnes qui bégaient. Dans le second article, Evan Usler remet aussi en question d’étroitesse du terme. Il propose de considérer plutôt la fluidité de communication. Par cette approche il propose de considérer l’ensemble de la communication comme porteuse d’un message efficace, y compris avec des variations du flux de parole typiques du bégaiement.
Bonne écoute !
Tichenor, S. E., Constantino, C., & Yaruss, J. S. (2022). A point of view about fluency. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(2), 645-652.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00342
Usler, E. (2022). Communicative fluency and the experience of stuttering: a viewpoint. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(10), 3827-3834.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00073

In this episode, I'm summarizing two articles about the debate on the term "fluency". In the first article, Seth Tichenor, Christopher Constantino and Scott Yaruss explain how the term has been a source of stigma for people who stutter. They argue for a different use of the term, and for an emphasis on the holistic experience of people who stutter. In the second article, Evan Usler also questions the narrowness of the term. Instead, he proposes to consider communicative fluency. With this approach, he proposes considering the whole of communication as carrying an effective message, even with variations in speech flow typical of stuttering.
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Tichenor, S. E., Constantino, C., & Yaruss, J. S. (2022). A point of view about fluency. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(2), 645-652.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00342
Usler, E. (2022). Communicative fluency and the experience of stuttering: a viewpoint. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(10), 3827-3834.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00073

In this 2nd episode you'll listen to Joeri Van Ormondt, a speech therapist and person who stutters practicing in the Netherlands. He is a board member of the ESS Consortium (European Stuttering Specialists) and organizer of the "Dream. Speak. Live" camps for the Netherlands.
In this interview, conducted at the ICA World Congress in Poland in September 2023, Joeri talks about an article by Christopher Constantino, Patrick Campbell and Sam Simpson published in 2022. This article questions the notion of fluency in a shift from a medical to a social model. Joeri explains how this article fueled his thinking as a practitioner and as a person who stutters.

Joeri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvanormondt/
Reference of the article: Constantino, C., Campbell, P., & Simpson, S. (2022). Stuttering and the social model. Journal of Communication Disorders, 96, 106200.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106200

For this first episode, I'm presenting Hilda Sonsterund's work on the therapeutic alliance and the working alliance in stuttering and cluttering treatments. We're talking about therapeutic alliance more and more often, but we don't always know what it means. You'll find explanations about the working alliance and an example of a scientific study evaluating its importance in the treatment of stuttering. I also present Hilda Sonsterund's adaptation suggestions to promote the therapeutic alliance during cluttering treatments.
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References of the articles:
Sønsterud, H., Kirmess, M., Howells, K., Ward, D., Feragen, K. B., & Halvorsen, M. S. (2019). The working alliance in stuttering treatment: a neglected variable?. International journal of language & communication disorders, 54(4), 606-619.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12465
Sønsterud, H. (2019). The importance of the working alliance in the treatment of cluttering. Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups, 4(6), 1568-1572.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERS-19-00057