Other Educational Programs

In addition to conducting in-person seminars and workshops, Dr. Yaruss has partnered with other organizations in speech-language pathology to make his helpful training materials available in a variety of formats, including online courses and webinars. Follow the links below go to the partners’ websites or to access the courses directly.

Online-CEUs is "a premier source of online information and continuing education for professionals in the fields of speech pathology..." Dr. Yaruss's current courses include:

Practical Counseling Skills for Speech-Language Pathologists (.5 CEUs) provides strategies for listening and responding to clients' needs, regardless of the nature of their communication disorder. Includes practice sessions and scenarios so clinicians will know what to say and how to say it to help clients achieve their greatest success.

Clinical Measurement of Stuttering Behaviors: A Practical Course (.3 CEUs) teaches clinicians to complete reliable, valid counts of speech disfluencies. Includes practice sessions with streaming audio and tips for ensuring accurate stuttering counts.

Stuttering Therapy: Using Problem-Solving Strategies to Facilitate Generalization and Maintenance (.5 CEUs) teaches clinicians advanced problem-solving skills to help clients who stutter overcome common roadblocks such as anxiety and low motivation. (By J. Scott Yaruss, William P. Murphy, and Robert W. Quesal.) 

NEW! Young Children Who Stutter: Helping Parents Help their Children (.5 CEUs) helps speech-language pathologists address the concerns often experienced by parents of young children who stutter. Includes step-by-step suggestions to reduce parents' fears and answers to commonly asked questions. (Based on the popular booklet for parents written for the National Stuttering Association by J. Scott Yaruss and Nina Reeves.) 

NEW! Evaluating and Treating Adolescents and Adults Who Stutter (.5 CEUs) helps speech-language pathologists understand the experience of adolescents and adults who stutter. Includes detailed guidance about how to employ advanced treatment techniques aimed at helping speakers overcome the burden of stuttering, through understanding and acceptance of stuttering, desensitization to stuttering, and increased use of techniques for enhancing fluency.

MEDS-PDN "offers continuing education credit seminars to a broad spectrum of professionals" including SLPs. Over the past several years, Dr. Yaruss has presented numerous in-person seminars for MEDS-PDN around the country. More recently, the company has focused on webinars instead of live programs.

Webinars are offered on a rotating schedule, which can be viewed on their website www.MEDS-PDN.com (search for "Yaruss"). Dr. Yaruss has just prepared 4 new webinars for MEDS-PDN based on his popular live "Practical Treatment Strategies" Series. These webinars address evaluation and treatment strategies for preschool and school-age children.

Practical Treatment Strategies for Preschool Children Who Stutter (.2 CEUs in each of 2 programs). Part I addresses the evaluation and diagnosis of preschool-age children who stutter, as well as the development of appropriate treatment recommendations. Part II continues with specific suggestions about appropriate treatment goals and procedures to help preschool children overcome early stuttering.

Practical Treatment Strategies for School-Age Children Who Stutter (.2 CEUs in each of 2 programs). Part I addresses the evaluation and diagnosis of school-age children who stutter. Part I also reviews concrete strategies for helping school-age children improve their speech fluency. Part II continues with specific suggestions about helping school-age children improve their overall communication abilities, as well as guidance about how to help those in the child's environment (parents, teachers, peers) come to terms with and accept the child's stuttering.

Dr. Yaruss's previous webinars for MEDS-PDN include:

Ten Things SLPs Can Do to Help Preschool Children Who Stutter (.2 CEUs) provides a broad overview of the stuttering disorder and helps clinicians understand how they can help preschoolers and their parents get the most out of therapy.

Ten Things SLPs Can Do to Help School-Age Children Who Stutter (.2 CEUs) helps clinicians understand the nature of the stuttering disorder from the perspective of the school-age child and prepares them to work with children as well as their parents.

Evaluating and Treating Adults Who Stutter (.2 CEUs) "...provide[s] an overview of the process of evaluating and treating adults who stutter so clinicians will feel confident that they are providing the best treatment possible."

These programs can be adapted to your organization's individual needs, either for live or computer-based presentation. Contact Dr. Yaruss for more information.

SpeechPathology.com "is dedicated to providing quality educational opportunities for all Speech-Language Pathologists." Dr. Yaruss has completed two online programs for SpeechPathology.com that are available in their archives.

Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES): Documenting Multiple Outcomes of Stuttering Treatment (.2 CEUs, recorded program) describes the development of the OASES measurement instrument and provides detailed training about the use and interpretation of the tool in clinical settings.

What Every SLP Should Know About Stuttering (.2 CEUs, recorded program) provides key information that all SLPs need in order to effectively evaluate and treat individuals who stutter across the lifespan.

LinguiSystems has provided "innovative, effective, affordable, and therapeutically sound materials for speech-language pathologists" since 1977. LinguiSystems now offers several FREE Continuing Education programs on their website, including:

Stuttering Disorders in School-Age Children (.2 CEUs, online) "provides an overall view of the assessment and treatment of school-age children who stutter." Based on the popular Source for Stuttering: Ages 7-18 (by Nina Reeves & J. Scott Yaruss).

Stuttering101 is an podcast providing an ongoing series of educational interviews and programs about stuttering. Available online with no charge.

Research Findings on the Benefits of Self-Help with Dr. Scott Yaruss (Episode 17) includes an overview of research demonstrating the benefits of recommending self-help / support groups for individuals who stutter.

Risk Factors and Recovery for Preschoolers Who Stutter with Dr. Scott Yaruss (Episode 18) discusses recent research on the factors that affect the development of stuttering in young children, including a review of risk factors predicting the likelihood of recovery vs. chronic stuttering.

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Documenting Treatment Outcomes with Dr. Scott Yaruss (Episode 19) describes how the World Health Organization's ICF framework can be used in planning stuttering treatment and, ultimately, in the evaluation of stuttering treatment efficacy.