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Guest Bio:

J. Scott Yaruss is a professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, a practicing speech-language pathologist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, and a board-certified specialist in fluency disorders. He joined the faculty of\xa0\xa0MSU in 2017, with the overarching goal helping speech-language pathologists improve their ability to provide meaningful and lasting support for people who live with stuttering.

Yaruss has published more than 85 peer-reviewed articles, as well as more than 110 other articles, chapters, and books about stuttering. He has given hundreds of continuing education workshops, seminars, and other presentations at local, national, and international conferences.\xa0He\xa0has also served in various posts for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association\u2019s Special Interest Group for Fluency Disorders and on the Board of Directors of the National Stuttering Association. He has been\xa0active in the stuttering self-help community for more\xa020 years.

Prior to coming to MSU, Yaruss was at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he led the\xa0Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania. He\xa0\xa0holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in linguistics and psychology from the University of California Berkeley, and a master\u2019s and doctorate in speech-language pathology from Syracuse University. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he was recognized with the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award.

In 2011, he co-founded Stuttering Therapy Resources (https://www.StutteringTherapyResources.com), a specialty publishing company focused on providing practical materials for helping speech-language pathologists help those who stutter. Key publications include:\xa0School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide,\xa0Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide,\xa0Minimizing Bullying for Children Who Stutter, and the\xa0Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES), a comprehensive instrument used around the world to measure the adverse impact of stuttering on people's lives.

In this episode Scott and Uri discuss:

- Latest research findings in neuroscience, genetics, pharmacology and more.

- Future directions, in research and clinical care for people who stutter

- Advice for students and up-and-coming speech-language pathologists

- Hopes for what we can do in the coming years

\xa0Links:

https://www.StutteringTherapyResources.com

School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide,\xa0

Host Bio:

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP passionately explores and develops practical ways for us to create our own success story. Delivering personalized experiences of communication care informed by leading professionals and influencers, Uri is re-imagining the next-level of speech-language therapy for people to benefit in real life.
Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech Pathology and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

For more, visit www.schneiderspeech.com

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