Thanks for visiting the website! It has been very exciting to create a home on the Internet to keep professionals, clients, and the public up to date on my services, seminars, and publications. On this page you will always find the latest news and events. Your comments about the site are always welcome.
Nina has been hired by a FOURTH school district to provide fluency specialist duties to SLPs and children: McKinney ISD. This is in addition to her positions at Frisco ISD, Garland ISD, and her quarterly consultation in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. Read more information about consultation services.
If you want to bring me to your organization for a seminar, please contact Nina.
Upcoming Seminars:
TETN Series at Region 11 ESC, Fort Worth, TX: This full series of seminars will be broadcast to several subscribed Educational Service Centers and district sites throughout the state of Texas.
December 3, 2009; Region 12 ESC, Waco, TX: Another TETN presentation for several districts and ESCs in Texas, Nina will present a full day workshop on School-age Stuttering Therapy.
February 12-13, 2010; Illinois Speech and Hearing Association annual conference at the Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, IL: Nina is a featured speaker and will be presenting two workshops: "School Age Stuttering Therapy, Where do we start?" and “What About Us? Counseling parents, teachers and others in stuttering therapy"
March 5-7, 2010; Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Columbus, OH: Nina will be a featured speaker, presenting two workshops: "Framing the 'Big Picture' of School Age Stuttering Therapy", and “School Age Stuttering Therapy, Let’s talk tools!”
May 21 , 2010; Region 6 Huntsville, TX: Nina is thrilled to return to Huntsville to present full day presentation regarding Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy.
Recent Past Seminars:
November 18-21, 2009; ASHA National Convention in New Orleans, LA:
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009; 1:00-5:30 pm, Room 183B: Nina has been invited to co-present a short-course for AHSA’s Division 4, Fluency and Fluency Disorders pre-convention workshop. She will be joining with long-time friend and co-author, Scott Yaruss, to present "Individualized Assessment for School-age Children who stutter: moving from evaluation to treatment." Space is limited for this presentation!
- Friday, November 20, 2009; 9:30-10:30 am, Room 354: Nina joins a panel of researchers and clinicians in stuttering to present session #1926 entitled "Creating Effective and Efficient Research Teams"
- Saturday, November 21, 2010; 9:30-10:30 am, Room 245: Nina teams up with colleague Nancy Ribbler (Broward County Schools, Florida) to present session #2210 entitled “Stuttering Therapy: Innovative Solutions for Public Schools" ASHA Attendees: Now you can download the
 Sample “Stuttering Kit” that Nina spoke about during this session. Please contact Nina if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for attending!
November 6-7, 2009; Fluency Friday Plus! in Cincinnati, Ohio: Once again, Nina will be attending this wonderful intensive program for children who stutter and their families. Nina will present workshops for both parents children.
October 16-17, 2009; Fullerton Fluency Conference: Nina will be co-presenting a two day conference at the Center for Children who Stutter at Cal State Fullerton.
October 3, 2009; National Stuttering Association: Buffalo Chapter Regional Conference for adults who stutter and CEU event.
April 1-2, 2009; Texas Speech and Hearing Association Convention:
"Hot Topics in Stuttering: Dealing with Teasing and Bullying" and "Stuttering: A Dual Perspective" (co-presented with Lee Reeves, DVM - husband and person who stutters)
January 17, 2009; Tampa, FL: School Age Stuttering Therapy (co-sponsored by the National Stuttering Association) Also January 18, 2009: Youth Day for children who stutter and their families
November 22, 2008; ASHA National Convention in Chicago, IL: Current Treatment Strategies for Preschool Children Who Stutter
October 1 - 31, 2008: International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference (ISAD 2008). Nina has a paper regarding Fluency Specialization in the Schools on the ISAD conference. It is co-authored by Dr. Charles Van Riper and Dr. Carl Dell.
June 25-28, 2008: National Stuttering Association Annual Conference, Parsippany, NJ:
- “Packing for the Journey: What's in your suitcase?”
- “Covert Stuttering: What's underneath?” panel presentation
- “Learn to Stutter: A presentation for parents” co-presented with Diane Games
- “Orientation for Speech-Language Pathologists” co-presented with Kristin Pelczarski
- “Stuttering Jeopardy” co-presented with Scott Yaruss, Caroline Pittard, and Eric Villafana
- “Stuttering 101” co-presented with Lee Reeves
Online Courses:
Until October 2009; Live Web/Teleseminar: School Age Stuttering Therapy: A Framework That Works - order the replay
Linguisystem's Free Online Continuing Education - Nina and Dr. J. Scott Yaruss (authors of the Source for Stuttering) have authored a free online course through Linguisystems on the subject of school age stuttering therapy.
Speechpathology.com CEU seminar: Nina and Dr. Kathleen Whitmire have co-authored an online course on the subject of eligibility and writing IEPs for school age stuttering therapy.
Latest Publications:
-
The booklet entitled Young Children who Stutter: Information and support for parents is now available in Spanish! Rucus Talks and Talks and More Friends for Jackson, coloring and story booklets for children, are also now available for sale! Please visit www.westutter.org to get your copies.
-
May, 2008 Interviewed for article: McClure, James, Fluency Consultants Help school clinicians gain expertise, confidence, Advance, Cover Story, May 12, pages 6-9.
- February, 2008 Interviewed for article: DeCarlo, Liz, Stuttering: A misunderstood disorder, Chicago Parent, pages 41-44.
See ALL of Nina's recent publications. |
