getting ready for summer teaching? and other FluencyBank updates

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Nan Bernstein Ratner

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May 6, 2019, 11:11:08 AM5/6/19

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If you are preparing for summer or fall teaching, you will want to take a look at the FluencyBank teaching page, which has grown tremendously since its inception. Completely OPEN ACCESS, it provides video-linked transcripts and activities for more than 30 adults who stutter, to be used in classroom assignments. https://fluency.talkbank.org/teaching/

Clinicians and Researchers: The FluCalc utility in CLAN, freely available and usable for all languages, is now able to compute fluency values over words OR syllables by user option. The utility also provides a weighted disfluency score appropriate for child assessment. When paired with the KidEval or Eval utilities available for English and a select additional set of languages, CLAN can now generate a comprehensive spoken language and fluency profile from a single expressive language sample. For more information, see the SLP guide to CLAN, available free here: https://talkbank.org/manuals/Clin-CLAN.pdf

Researchers: we continue to solicit research data sets for inclusion in the password-protected area of FluencyBank. If you have data you'd like to contribute, please contact me. We can facilitate work with your local IRB to enable contribution of past and future data. The newest set to be posted is from the Illinois Stuttering Research Project. Others are in process. FluencyBank resources can be used to digitize old data, link to existing or new transcripts and other work to enable its contribution.

best regards to all,

Nan Ratner

Nan Bernstein Ratner, F-, H-ASHA, F-AAAS, ABCLD

Professor

Hearing and Speech Sciences

University of Maryland

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College Park, MD 20742

nra...@umd.edu, 301-405-4217

Co-director: FluencyBank (www.fluency.talkbank.org); http://languagefluency.umd.edu/

President, International Fluency Association (IFA; http://theifa.org)

Director, University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium (UMARC), www.autism.umd.edu