Working with Temperament in Children Who Stutter and Their Families
- Prof. Dr. Kurt Eggers
- 07/04/2022 19:00
- 7h 0min
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| # | Date | Content | Duration |
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| 1 | Working with temperament in children who stutter and their families 07/04/22 19.00-22:30 | 210min | |
| 2 | Working with temperament in children who stutter and their families 08/04/22 19.00-22:30 | 210min |
Temperament refers to individual differences in emotional reactivity (e.g., getting excited, getting frustrated) and self-regulation (e.g., suppressing inappropriate responses, shifting attentional focus). Several studies in this domain have demonstrated that a substantial group of children who stutter are more emotionally reactive and/or have lower emotion/attention regulation skills compared to children who do not stutter.
Not only can this play a role in the exacerbation of stuttering, but according to recent studies it is also related to the impact that stuttering has on day-to-day functioning.
During this lecture we will discuss the relevant literature and provide several tools and strategies of how clinicians and parents can contribute to improving children’s emotional regulation.
Prof. Dr. Kurt Eggers
Kurt Eggers holds a BA in Medicine, MA in SLP, and PhD. in Biomedical Sciences and Developmental Psychology. He is a researcher/docent at the SLP dept. of Thomas More U College (Belgium), associate professor at the Psychology & SLP dept. at Turku University (Finland) and visiting lecturer at the U of Oulu (Finland). He is coordinator of the European Clinical Specialization in Fluency Disorders (www.ecsf.eu), President-Elect of the International Fluency Association (www.theifa.org), and IALP fluency committee member. Kurt has worked clinically for many years, has lectured/published internationally and his research focuses on the role of temperament, attention, and executive functioning in stuttering and speech disfluencies in different populations.
Course Outcomes
The participants of this course will be able to;- Participants will gain insight in the concept of temperament and research findings related to stuttering.
- Participants will gain insight in the role temperament plays in the emotional development and regulation.
- Participants will learn and be able to implement therapeutic activities building emotional regulation in working with children who stutter and their environment.
Program Flow
- Introduction
- Working with temperament in children who stutter and their families
- Q&A
