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Nina Reardon-Reeves has presented over 200 training workshops on the subject of stuttering, effective stuttering therapy, and other fluency disorders. Nina’s specialized experience and current position as a speech pathologist in both school and private practice settings help to create a special insight into practical strategies that work with children and young adults who stutter.
Looking to attend a seminar? Visit the Upcoming Seminars section of this site for details about Nina's presentations around the country!
Here are some comments from participants:
I just want to thank you again for the outstanding job you did in presenting "School Age Stuttering Therapy". I always appreciate listening to someone who knows their subject so well and, more importantly, can convey that knowledge to an audience in such an engaging and enthusiastic manner. I know from my years of attending CEU sessions and in my work at the University of Cincinnati what a talent you have, and I wanted to be sure that you knew that your hard work was appreciated and valued! - Carolyn Rudolph; Cincinnati, OH
I attended your seminar yesterday in Houston and my therapy today has been eye opening. Thank you so much for the incredibly helpful information and insight into stuttering therapy. [Stuttering] has been a weak area for me, but now I am excited about it. Tomorrow's plan - "SPEECH MAN". Thanks for all the work you do to make my job as a therapist easier and more rewarding! - Lori Hazlewood, M.S., CCC-SLP
Below, you will find a sampling of the interactive workshops that Nina Reardon-Reeves has created. No matter what your continuing education needs, Nina can design a special package of topics geared to your specifications and time allotments. Click on the links below to go directly to the presentation description.
Don't need a full seminar? Just need some expert advice? Consultations are available on-site for SLPs, parents, teachers, and administrators. Click to see the endless options that are available!
PRESENTATIONS FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS:
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School Age Stuttering Therapy: A prescription for success
- How do we “do” therapy with school age children who stutter? We can look to successful therapy in allied professions to inspire us. We must seek to increase our knowledge, refine our skills, and most importantly, understand the perspectives of the children who stutter and their families. Join us to write your own prescription for long-term success for school age children who stutter.
Recommended Length: Full Day
Target Audience: SLP
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Early Intervention in Stuttering: Yes, we DO need to know this!
- “I don't work with preschoolers” is a comment heard many times when we talk about stuttering therapy for the young child. Truth is, however, that no matter which population we work with now, it may not be the population we work with in the future. No matter what, sometime, somewhere a client, relative or friend is going to expect us to be a resource for a young child who is beginning to show signs of stuttering.
Recommended Length: Full Day
Target Audience: SLPs
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Assessing Speech Motor and Communication Skills for Children who Stutter
- An overview of these aspects of therapy is completed during this interactive workshop. Videotaped examples and role-playing of assessment scenarios are utilized to bring “reality” to transcription samples of speech behaviors and assessment of cognitive/affective issues. Report writing is also explored based upon multifactorial assessment procedures.
Recommended Length: Full Day
Target Audience: SLPs
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School Age Stuttering Therapy: Where do we start?
- Speech pathologists are often wondering how to begin therapy with new students. This presentation outlines the foundations of therapy that are important for long-term success.
Recommended Length: Half Day
Target Audience: SLPs
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School-Age Stuttering Therapy: What's in YOUR toolbox?
- Many speech-language pathologists do not feel that they have a command of the basic speech management techniques involved in an integrated stuttering therapy model. This interactive session involves 2% theory and 98% role-play and practice of these essential speech and stuttering management skills.
Recommended Length: Half Day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Stuttering Therapy: Concepts and strategies for success
- What do we need for more effective stuttering therapy? For most of us, we need a framework of concepts to include in therapy, combined with practical strategies to work with our students who stutter. This workshop presents both in an organized, easy to implement course of action.
Recommended Length: Half Day to Full Day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Paper Cuts are the Worst: Writing IEPs for Stuttering Therapy
- What do we need to know when writing IEPs for school age children who stutter? Specifically, how can we language and how can we measure the dynamic interaction of variables that impact the therapeutic process? When we expand our views of the goals of school age stuttering therapy, we can decrease our frustration of the “how tos” that go along with effective goal planning. This workshop will discuss IDEA 2004, the language of goal writing, and documentation of progress.
Recommended Length: 2-3 hours
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Beliefs and Feelings: Counseling children who stutter and their parents
- Understanding and dealing with the beliefs and feelings of your student who stutters is an integral aspect of successful stuttering therapy. This workshop highlights the most common problems faced by a child who stutters, and outlines several counseling and communication techniques that therapists can integrate into the therapy process.
Recommended Length: Half Day to Full Day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Collaborating with Parents and Teachers in Stuttering Therapy
- Children who stutter are best served when a TEAM approach is utilized. Involving parents and teachers in the process of stuttering therapy can be problematic in several service delivery atmospheres. This workshop provides creative techniques for integration of significant others into the therapy process. Discussion will include successful ideas for educating and counseling parents, teachers, and siblings. “Use on Monday” handouts are provided.
Recommended Length: Half Day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Stuttering and Co-Existing Disorders: Blending Therapy Practices
- Stuttering therapy can feel daunting, even in the best of circumstances. To add to the challenges, many children who stutter present with co-existing issues. This presentation provides concepts to consider and activities to present for children who stutter who also have other disorders.
Recommended Length: Half-day to Full-day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Cluttering: What we know for now
- This half-day seminar presents current information on the disorder of cluttering. Definition, research briefs, assessment, report writing and therapy activities are discussed in this workshop. Cases studies and video vignettes are used to clarify concepts presented.
Recommended Length: Half-day
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
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Stuttering Therapy in Partnership with Support Groups: The Best of Both Worlds
- Traditional modes of therapy alone do not meet many of the needs of children who stutter and their families. The introduction of a support organization experience into the direct therapy process can greatly benefit the child, parent, and SLP. The school-based SLP is uniquely positioned to utilize this resource to complement an overall treatment strategy.
Recommended Length: 2 hours
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists
PRESENTATIONS for EDUCATORS:
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The Preschool Child Who Stutters: For the Early Childhood Educator
- Early Childhood Educators are the best “first line” of successful early intervention of fluency disorders. However, many early childhood professionals often request further information regarding “danger signs” as well as their role in supporting the child who stutters in the classroom. This workshop presents concise referral information along with support strategies that educators can employ in the classroom setting.
Recommended Length: 2 Hours to Half Day
Target Audience: Early Childhood Educators, Support Staff, and Speech-Language Pathologists
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The School Age Child Who Stutters: Information for Professional Educators
- For a school age child who stutters, the probability of successful management of stuttering can be enhanced when teachers are educated about and involved in the process of therapy. This in-service provides information regarding stuttering and stuttering therapy. The interactive nature of the presentation seeks to empower educators with successful strategies for supporting the child who stutters in the classroom setting.
Recommended Length: 2-3 Hours
Target Audience: Classroom Educators, Support Staff, Administrators
KEYNOTE and MOTIVATIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
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Taming the Tiger: Overcoming Obstacles Facing Speech–Language Pathologists in the Schools
- School-based speech language pathologists face a multitude of challenges to providing “best-practice” services to the students on their caseloads. This truth generates many pitfalls for the profession as a whole, and to individuals interested in improving the quality of stuttering therapy, in particular
- This presentation outlines the obstacles that SLPs are facing in the school setting. Concurrently, discussion will provide opportunities to target areas where leadership can continue to make positive changes in decreasing the barriers that exist to creating more appropriate school-based therapy for children who stutter.
Recommended Length: Can be tailored
Target Audience: School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
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Spiral or Spring? You Decide
In our daily work as speech professionals, we face many challenges as well as many rewards. Our work is to decide our own fate; to choose how we view our profession, our careers, and ourselves. Have you ever taken stock? Have you ever asked yourself the questions that could change your ability to work with enthusiasm in any service delivery venue? Discover a new perspective as you face the challenges of your time constraints and therapy settings!
Have you ever thought about life as a game of cards? Well, being a speech-language pathologist these days demands us to not only master playing with a full deck, but knowing all of the games and being "card sharks" as well. Making changes in our profession, our job settings, and the way in which we serve the children and adults in our care can be a tall order. We know the outside challenges well. Now let's explore the challenges we have placed on ourselves, from the inside, and learn how to get ourselves out of the way when it comes to making positive changes in our professional lives.
FOR PARENTS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS:
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Educate, Advocate, Validate: Keys for loved ones of children who stutter
Parents of children who stutter often feel isolated and confused about what is best for their child. This presentation will inform and support parents with the challenges of understanding what stuttering is, working with professionals, and helping their child through the process of learning to deal with stuttering.
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My Child Stutters: A journey of change
Parents often become so involved in the journey of their child, they forget their own journeys. It is important for parents to address their own stages of change. This workshop leads parents through though provoking questions and discussions regarding being the parent of a child who stutters.
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Fears and Stuttering: A parent interaction
What are we afraid of? Many times, parents fear that their child will be teased, won’t be successful, will be held back, etc because of stuttering. This workshop provides an interactive discussion group format which allows parents to share fears and triumphs in learning about and dealing with stuttering in their family system.
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Packing for the Journey: What’s in YOUR suitcase?
Learning to deal with stuttering in the long term is a journey that children who stutter and their families must take. Take a trip together to discover if what you have packed for the journey serves you or needs to be ‘left by the side of the road.” Pack great tools that help the journey, rather than hinder it!
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Building a Support System for Children who Stutter
Children who stutter need the significant others in their environment to understand stuttering, stuttering therapy, and the process of change that takes place over time. This interactive workshop helps families ‘get together’ on what it takes to deal with stuttering in the long term.
Read what Nina's seminar participants have to say:
How wonderful to attend a workshop from such a fabulous presenter! Thank you for going into so much meaningful and practical depth…What an impressive SLP, speaker, & counselor!
- Mia Elliott; San Antonio, TX
Your workshop helped to clarify so many things I was unsure of and to remind me of several important points I had forgotten. Your presentation was so well-organized and created such a wonderful template on which I could base my therapy. Your passion for this field is very inspiring and validating.
-Mary Ann E.; Amarillo, TX
I attended your seminar yesterday in Houston and my therapy today has been eye opening. Thank you so much for the incredibly helpful information and insight into stuttering therapy. [Stuttering] has been a weak area for me, but now I am excited about it. Tomorrow's plan - "SPEECH MAN". Thanks for all the work you do to make my job as a therapist easier and more rewarding!
- Lori Hazlewood, M.S., CCC-SLP
I attended your Portland, OR seminar last Friday and I wanted to thank you for all the practical information you shared. You reinforced what I already knew, and I learned many new therapy ideas. It has been a long time since I have come away from a seminar feeling like I learned so much. I feel so much more confident that I can help my students who stutter. Thank You! Come back to Portland soon! - Eve Liebman, M.S., CCC-SLP