Concordia's Speech-Language Pathology program invites Concordia students/employees and community members to attend an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary My Beautiful Stutter. Prior to and following the screening, participants will have opportunity to hear from two Concordia experts.

—REGISTRATION—

This event is free but donations will be accepted.

To register, email slpce@cuw.edu and include your preferred name and email address. If you have any special needs, please indicate them in your registration email so that we may provide accommodations.

—SCHEDULE OF EVENTS—

5 p.m.—Presentation by Richard McGuire, PhD, CCC-SLP

Final Disclosure: Receives a salary from Concordia University Wisconsin. Non-Financial Disclosures: There are no non-financial relationships to disclose.

5:45 p.m.—Screening of the film My Beautiful Stutter

7:15 p.m.—Presentation by Angela D. Haendel, PhD, CCC-SLP

Final Disclosure: Receives a salary from Concordia University Wisconsin. Non-Financial Disclosures: There are no non-financial relationships to disclose.

8 p.m.—Post-screening audience survey

—CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS—

This program is offered for up to 0.3 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area). Attendance of entire presentation is required to achieve Learning Outcomes for CE credit.

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—LEARNING OUTCOMES—

By the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to:

  • Identify various components of stuttering and the effects stuttering has on the psychological/social development of people who stutter
  • Demonstrate an increased understanding of effective therapeutic approaches as well as contraindicated approaches to stuttering
  • Identify strategies to better engage with clients and their families

—ABOUT THE FILM—

My Beautiful Stutter is the powerful and inspirational story of five kids, from all over the United States, who enter experimental, interactive, and arts-based programs at SAY (The Stuttering Association for the Young). After a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, some have found themselves close to suicide, others enter SAY withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from fluency training and the pressure to not stutter or remain silent.

Over the course of a year, we witness firsthand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: it's okay to stutter.