Opportunity for child/teen contributions to the FluencyBank teaching site
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Speaking Challenge Opportunity for CWS
Attention Clinicians:
I’d like to make you aware of an opportunity to provide 8-18 year old clients who stutter with a speaking challenge. We are working on a project called Voices of PWS. We have created a fluency disorders teaching section on the Talkbank.org website. This involves posting speech samples that can be used by instructors teaching fluency disorders courses. This site contains videos of people talking about their stuttering, and they are intended to be used by instructors, so that students can learn about experiences that PWS have with stuttering and life impact and also practice coding disfluencies. We have videos from over 30 adults posted and videos from a few children are going up soon. We are currently expanding the site to include more videos of children and teens, and this is what you might help with.
What would happen if you were interested?
1. We’d email you consent and assent forms, a list of questions about the child’s experiences with stuttering, and a reading passage.
2. You would have your student/client and parent sign the consent and assent forms.
3. You would make a video in which you interview your client by asking the questions we sent, and another video in which your client reads the reading passage.
4. You would send us the consent and assent forms and both videos.
5. We would transcribe the videos and post them to the open-access teaching site.
Because people who volunteer for this project are interested in helping with teaching, the videos are posted open-access, which means that anyone can view them (i.e., not password protected). We thought that some of your clients may be interested in working up to a speaking challenge in which they make videos that will be posted on the open-access site.
You can look at the teaching site here:
https://fluency.talkbank.org/teaching/
Information for adults who stutter or clutter and are interested in contributing is available here: https://fluency.talkbank.org/volunteer.html
If you may be interested, please email my lab at languagef...@umd.edu for more information.
Please note: Although the aim of this project is to establish a teaching resource, and not to answer research questions, it is still an IRB-approved project: # 926127-5 from the University of Maryland.
Cordially,
Nan Ratner