Question for a Professional
Hello! Our names are Jessica Kozar, Emily LeVan, and Lele Kelly. We are 2nd Year SLP graduate students at UofSC. We are currently completing a stuttering course and are hoping to gain insight on family counseling. Our question is: What are your preferred evidence-based counseling approaches/techniques that you utilize when helping families with a child who stutters? Specifically, what are your suggestions regarding encouraging family acceptance and normalizing/supporting their child’s stutter? How would this differ depending on the child’s age?
Hello Jessica, Emily, and Lele,
HI! Congratulations on your graduate education and being almost done! Next stop, a job!!! So exciting!
What a great question. Being someone who has published article and presented about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness, I lean in that direction for my counseling approach. However, since being a podcast host for the free podcast, Act To Live Podcast, we have explored all kinds of psychological theories to apply to every life, but that could be applied to working with people who stutter.
If you email me, I can send you articles written in the past several years that might help you learn a lot more about ACT, Mindfulness, and other counseling skills.
In the past three years I have been working with Dr. Derek Daniels and Dr. James Panico, focusing on the use and importance of Active/Mindful Listening skills. The more you can practice listening skills with anyone we converse with, the more effective we will listen to our clients and families.
Again, if you email me I can send you some information.
My email: spalasik@uakron.edu
The above are just a few of MANY options for counseling. There is CBT, REBT, and so much more!!!
Keep asking questions!
With compassion and kindness,
Scott