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Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 11 a.m.

Dr. Elaina Kefalianos is the Lead of Teaching and Senior Lecturer for the Master of Speech Pathology course at the University of Melbourne. She has 13 years of clinical research experience. Her current research focuses on better understanding the development of stuttering and recovery in population-level studies and improving management approaches for children who stutter.\xa0

Elaina is Vice-President for the\xa0Stuttering Association for the Young: Australia. This is a national not for profit organization for 7-18-year-old Australian young people who stutter. Some of her latest research is focused on conducting trials examining the efficacy of novel creative arts programs to improve psychosocial outcomes for young people who stutter. She is also a chief investigator for the Effective Stuttering Treatment project. Together with colleagues at the University of Oslo in Norway, she is developing a new intervention program for preschool children who stutter.

Elaina\u2019s research has been published in international leading discipline-specific journals. She has received over $2.5M in competitive research grants to date and has been an invited speaker at 4 international seminars.\xa0

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00-7:35: Welcome and opening marks \xa0 7:35-13:42: Camp SAY: = magic \xa0 13:42-19:01: Being a professional researcher/clinician and also a personal partner with a PWS \xa0 19:01-24:20: Navigating stuttering society \xa0 24:20-30:00: Bringing data to life and using stories to generate evidence (research data) \xa0 30:00-32:56: The inspirational example of Dr. Susan Block and how Elaina discovered her passion for stuttering \xa0 32:56-38:02: International perspective and collaboration between Australia-Norway \xa0 44:09-45:45: Talking about the intersection of professional and personal stuttering worlds \xa0 45:45-58:37: Stereotypes and stigma... Australian accents and Vegemite vs. American accents and peanut butter and jelly \xa0 58:37-Closing: Closing remarks \xa0\xa0 \xa0 RESOURCES/LINKS SAY: Australia https://www.sayaustralia.org.au\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 QUOTES: "Camp Say in one word?" "Magic." "All that stuff beneath the surface... I felt completely unable to handle properly." "Rich taught me I don't want to change my voice- I just want to enjoy the conversation." "I treat, I teach and I research stuttering. So yeah, I'm just completely immersed in it." \xa0 HOST BIO

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP\xa0is co-founder and leader at\xa0Schneider Speech; creator of\xa0Transcending Stuttering Academy\xa0and faculty at the\xa0University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.