With the support of the Socrates Programme of the European Union
Staff
Joseph Agius
Affiliation: University of Malta
Mail: joseph.g.agius@um.edu.mt
CV: Joseph Agius is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Fluency Specialist. He holds a Master of Science degree in Clinical Speech and Language Studies from Trinity College, University of Dublin and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Sheffield. Dr Agius has an extensive background in training, lecturing, evaluation, facilitation and program management. Principal of the Speech Language Department and employed by the Health Division, Government of Malta, he is co-responsible for the management, assessment and treatment services of communication disorders in Malta and Gozo. He lectures at the University of Malta on ‘Fluency Disorders' and ‘Language and Psychiatry'.
Anne Breda
Mail: anne.breda@arteveldehs.be
CV: Anne Breda graduated from the Arteveldehogeschool Ghent in 1979. She worked for 12 years in a rehabilitation centre and was trained by Lena Rustin (London, 1992) and followed workshops on stuttering (e.g. Stournaras, Brutten, Starkweather, Meyers, Stes & Boey, Starke, Bertens, De Geus). She works as a lecturer in fluency disorders and as a clinician in her own practice. She also co-operated in the postgraduate training on stuttering therapy at the Arteveldehogeschool Ghent. In 2005 she specialized as a psychotherapist on ‘Solution-Focused Therapy'. She also published some articles on stuttering for the Flemish professional body of SLT's.
Luc De Nil
Affiliation: University of Leuven & University of Toronto
Mail: luc.denil@utoronto.ca
CV: Luc F. De Nil is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute, an Adjunct Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He currently is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication Disorders. His research interests include using behavioural testing and neuroimaging to study the neural mechanism underlying speech fluency, specifically developmental stuttering, acquired adult-onset stuttering, and Tourette's syndrome.
Kurt Eggers
Affiliation: Lessius University College - University of Leuven
Mail: kurt.eggers@lessius.eu
CV: Kurt Eggers holds a BA in Medicine and MA in SLT and specialized in fluency and voice disorders. He is head of department of speech-language therapy and audiology at Lessius U College, and affiliated researcher at the U of Leuven. He is/was a visiting lecturer at the U of Oulu/Turku (Finland) and Fontys U College (The Netherlands). He coordinates the European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders, is a member of the fluency committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), and was a board member of the Belgian SLT federation. He has lectured nationally and internationally on fluency disorders and his research focuses on the role of temperament & attentional processes in stuttering and speech disfluencies in Down syndrome.
Carl Hylebos
Mail: carl.hylebos@arteveldehs.be
CV: Carl Hylebos (Arteveldehogeschool Ghent) is a Bachelor of Speech therapy and Audiology (Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent). He is a staff member and the principal lecturer in Fluency disorders and lecturer in voice & voice disorders, and articulation & articulation disorders at the Arteveldehogeschool, ass. U of Ghent, department of health care, Bachelor of Speech therapy and Audiology. He was the coordinator of the Postgraduate Program on Fluency and Fluency disorders and the coordinator of an international intensive module on Professional Issues in Speech Therapy.
Eira Jansson-Verkasalo
Affiliation: University of Turku
Mail: eira.jansson-verkasalo@utu.fi
CV: Eira Jansson-Verkasalo, PhD, speech therapist, has defended her thesis on central auditory processing and language development in prematurely born children and children with Asperger syndrome. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Turku, Logopedics, Finland, and the chair of the advisory board at the Neurocognitive Unit, University Hospital of Oulu. She has published several articles on central auditory processing in children. The main topics of the research are central auditory processing and language development in children. Recently her studies have broadened on the area of stuttering. The main teaching areas are fluency disorders, study modules related to research methodology, and supervision of both BA and MA thesis. Furthermore, she is currently supervising several post graduate students in Logopedics.
Tove Johannisson
Affiliation: Gothenburg University
Mail: tove.Johannisson@neuro.gu.se
CV: Tove Johannisson (University of Göteborg) holds a Master of Science degree (2000) in Speech and Language Pathology and Therapy at Gothenborg University. She is a teacher and Director of Undergraduate studies at the Speech Language Pathology Program at Gothenborg University which she combines with part time clinical work with people who stutter, Stuttering Intensive Therapy and children with SLI. She is responsible for the curriculumon Fluency disorders at the Speech and Language Pathology Program. Her topics of research are the evalutation of stuttering therapy for children and attitudes towards communication in normal speaking children and children who stutter.
Margaret Leahy
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
Mail: mleahy@tcd.ie
CV: Margaret M. Leahy holds a Master of Science degree in SLT and in Literature. She has been a lecturer/Senior Lecturer and Clinical Tutorat Trinity College Dublin and previous Director of the School of ClinicalSpeech & Language Studies. Since 2005 she is Head of Discipline, Clinical Speech & Language Studies, School of Linguistic, Speech & Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. She has numerous publications in international topic-related journals and was also the president of the IFA (International Fluency Association) from 2002 until 2005.
Mark Meersman
Affiliation: Lessius University College & University College Bruges-Ostend
Mail: mark.meersman@lessius.eu
CV: Mark Meersman is a Bachelor of Speech therapy and Audiology (Lessius U College). He lectures in fluency disorders, articulation disorders, methodology of speech therapy and behaviour analysis, and was a co-coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Fluency Disorders at Lessius U College. He specialised in Fluency and Voice disorders and has extensive clinical experience in fluency disorders. He is a former guest lecturer in Postgraduate Program on Fluency Disorders at Artevelde College Ghent, and in the Specialisation Course on Stuttering Therapy. He published various articles and gave lectures on the treatment of fluency disorders.
Mark Pertijs
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Mail: mark.pertijs@hu.nl
CV: Mark Pertijs is a Bachelor In Speech and Language Pathology (1985) He works as a lecturer of Fluency Disorders at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. He is responsible for the curriculum of Fluency Disorders and developed a special policy for unimpeded learning for stuttering students. Mark has extensive experience as a clinician working with fluency disorders and works as a clinician at the Health Centre Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands. He is a member of the educational committee of the Dutch Stuttering Therapists Association (NVST) and published various articles on fluency disorders.
Peter Schneider
Affiliation: RWTH Aachen University
Mail: pschneider@ukaachen.de
CV: Peter Schneider has a state diploma in speech and language therapy, pedagogics, andas a teacher. His further education was on client centered play therapy,psychodrama techniques in play therapy, transactional analysis, psychological supervision, and on therapy of Van Riper and Dell (Germany). He works as a clinician in the School of Logopedics, University Hospital Aachen (RWTH), and also in a private practice. He lectures in fluency disorders at the school of Logopedics and the University Hospital Aachen (RWTH), and gives workshops on fluency disorders all over Germany. He has published on parental counselling, fluency disorders and child language development.
Trudy Stewart
Affiliation:
Leeds Community Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy service
Mail: trudy.stewart@nhs.net
CV: Trudy Stewart, PhD., Consultant speech and language therapist, is highly experienced in disordersof lfuency (stammering) with more than 30 years clinical experience. She was the first speech and language therapist in the UK to be awarded a PhD. in the field of stammering. Within the field of fluency she has written numerous research articles, papers, and chapters on a range of subjectsincluding psychological issues, client experience, group therapy, and acquired stammering. She is the author of 2 self help books on stammering and several other books written for speech and language therapists and other professionals; many of these have been translated in other languages. She has been involved in clinical training of speech therapists at undergraduate and post graduate level in the UK, USA, Europe and Sri Lanka.
Jaqueline Carmona
Affiliation: ESSA
Health School in Higher Education at Alcoitão
Mail: fluencia@essa.pt
CV: Jaqueline Carmona works as a lecturer in fluency disorders at the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Health School in Higher Education at Acoitão which she combines with her clinical work. Clinically she focuses on screening, diagnosis and treatment of stuttering and children with Specific Language Impairment at PIN - Progresso Infantil in Portugal. She also gives workshops on fluency disorders for older SLT's, but also for other professionals, teacher's, kindergarden educators among others.
Yvonne Van Zaalen
Affiliation: Fontys University of Applied Sciences Eindhoven
Mail: y.vanzaalen@fontys.nl
CV: As head of the Communication Assessment and Technology knowledge centre of Fontys University Eindhoven, Yvonne van Zaalen is responsible for scientific research and education on speech and languages production processes in (dis)fluent speech of normal hearing and hearing impaired persons. As senior fluency specialist Dr. van Zaalen has more than 20 years experience working with persons who stutter or clutter. Yvonne has been chair of clinical committee since 2007 and was elected to become chair of the International Cluttering Association in 2012.
Veerle Waelkens
Affiliation: Artevelde University College
Mail: veerle.waelkens@arteveldehs.be
CV: Veerle Waelkens (Arteveldehogeschool Ghent) isa Bachelor in Speech therapy and Audiology (1989, Arteveldehogeschool Ghent).She specialised in fluency disorders at the Arteveldehogeschool and has since attended workshops by several authorities in the field of fluency disorders.She works as a lecturer in speech-fluency disorders and speech and Language disorders at the Arteveldehogeschool and in her private practice where she focuses on screening, diagnosis and treatment of stuttering, cluttering and and different disorders that effect the clients self-esteem, social aspects of communication (dysphasia, dyspraxia, speech anxiety,...). She is also the co-ordinator of a stuttering-treatment team that consults, counsels, trains and supports family-members and other communication-partners (Individual counselling and parental group sessions, program for teachers.
Hartmut Zückner
Affiliation: RWTH Aachen University
Mail: hzueckner@ukaachen.de
CV: Hartmut Zückner holds a state diploma (RWTH Aachen) in Speech and Language Therapy, German literature & linguistics and social science. He specialized in fluency disorders by following workshops on Van Riper Therapy, SSMP-Therapy, client-centered Rogerian counseling, and Counseling and Supervison in Germany and the U.S. He works as a clinician at the university hospital Aachen. Since 1995 he lectures in stuttering and cluttering therapy at the school of Logopedics Aachen. He has published several articles on the topics of fluency, voice and aphasia. In 1995 he also received the Support Award of the German Society of Aphasia Therapy and Research.