Michael Boyle helps lead the Stuttering Foundation 2018 Mid-Atlantic Workshop

Faculty member Michael Boyle served as co-instructor and faculty workshop member, along with Joseph Donaher and Vivian Sisskin, at the July 2018 Stuttering Foundation Mid-Atlantic workshop. The event, co-sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation, University of Maryland, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, included 20 speech-language pathologists from around the world as participants. The purpose of the workshop, titled “Treating Children and Adolescents who Stutter,” was to spread best practices and increase clinical skills for participants in order to improve outcomes for the global community of people who stutter. Specific goals included increasing participants’ knowledge and skills in conducting multidimensional assessment, and developing appropriate treatment plans, activities, and goals for individuals who stutter. The workshop was held at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from July 23-27.