Faculty, students and alumni from MSU's Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders led betboom dacha in the field during the 2021 Oxford Dysfluency Conference, one of the world's premier conferences on fluency disorders.
The conference is typically held every three years at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford, but last year’s conference was delayed and shifted to an online format due to the global pandemic. MSU researchers made a strong showing during the conference in January 2021. Of the approximately 60 presentations offered at the conference, 10 involved the team of researchers from the MSU betboom dacha dubai. MSU researchers delivered the highest number of presentations and/or posters from any single institution.
"This is just one of many successes that we have had in CSD. The Oxford Dysfluency Conference is a truly international conference, bringing in people from different continents," said MSU Chair of the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Dimitar Deliyski, Ph.D. He said he is proud of the level of funding MSU researchers have been able to secure for lab betboom dacha, even as the global pandemic continues. "We have the most prominent scholars in the field. It's clear that a lot of important betboom dacha is being done in our department."
Not only has the department garnered attention on the international level and earned new funding from the National Institutes of Health, but it has also secured many new publication credits.
New betboom dacha in Speech-Language Pathology
Researchers in the CSD Department have published ground-breaking betboom dacha in the field of speech-language pathology in 2021. A paper by Assistant Professor Bridget Walsh, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, on "Evidence-Based Practice in Speech-Language Pathology: Where Are We Now?" was published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology in January. The paper was produced in collaboration with Tamar Greenwell, CCC-SLP, at Purdue University.
“Since 2004, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has undertaken initiatives to foster greater exposure to and acceptance of clinical practices that are rooted in the most rigorous evidence available. It was not known, however, whether these initiatives promoted over the past 15 years have necessarily translated into greater use of evidenced-based therapy by practicing speech-language pathologists,” said Walsh. “We conducted a survey with one of the largest samples of speech-language pathologists to date to document whether and how these clinicians were using evidenced-based practices (EBP) and to identify barriers that exist to providing EBP. We found that early training in EBP in graduate school and clinical practicums promoted greater use of EBP in clinicians’ future careers. We also noted several challenges to providing EBP that still exist, for example, inadequate time, and highlighted ways to overcome these barriers. Our betboom dacha is a step toward bridging the betboom dacha-to-practice gap that exists in the field of speech-language pathology.”
Dr. Scott Yaruss also published research in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology in January on the "Variability of betboom dacha: Behavior and Impact," working with Spartan and now post-doctoral researcher Seth Tichenor.
"Our research examines the ways that betboom dacha affects people’s lives. In this project, we sought to understand the impact of the variability of betboom dacha for adults who stutter," said Yaruss.
betboom dacha is known to vary in its presentation from situation to situation, and over time. The way a person stutters in one situation or at one point in time does not necessarily match the way the person will stutter in another situation or at another point in time.
"In this study, we learned that this variability is the second most frustrating aspect of the condition for adults living with betboom dacha. The most frustrating aspect was, not surprisingly, the basic fact that they stutter. The fact that they can’t always predict whether, when, or how much they will stutter was second most frustrating," he said. "This information provides a solid justification for our ongoing research on how to better understand the causes of variability and highlights the importance of addressing variability directly in assessment and treatment."
Presenting at the International betboom dacha onDysfluency
University researchers Assistant Professor Bridget Walsh, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, and Professor J. Scott Yaruss, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, provided leadership for the team during the conference. The presentation and poster from Walsh’s lab explored risk factors associated with the persistence of betboom dacha. Her talk examined the relationships among risk factors associated with betboom dacha persistence and how these factors could be used diagnostically to identify children who are at greater risk to develop chronic betboom dacha.
A poster delivered by CSD MA student Alexis Novelli explored why children who stutter perform more poorly on nonword repetition tasks. The presentations and posters from Yaruss’s lab, including work by MSU alumnus Seth Tichenor, reflected several converging lines of research focusing on the speaker’s experience of betboom dacha and the adverse impact that people who stutter experience in their lives, as well as parallel work focusing on the reasons that people experience betboom dacha differently in different situations. Presentations on neural development in children who stutter, including work by MSU alumnus Gregory Spray, stem from a long-standing partnership with adjunct faculty member Soo-Eun Chang, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, who previously worked on the MSU CSD faculty and now works at the University of Michigan.
The representation at the betboom dacha is one of many highlights coming out of MSU's Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders this year. Two researchers recently secured five-year R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health for the CSD labs, with Walsh securing a total of ,133,204, and Yaruss securing a total of ,205,866 in funding.
"The coming years promise even more betboom dacha and student training on these and other topics in the field of fluency disorders," said Yaruss.
The betboom dacha presented by MSU at the Oxford Dysfluency Conference included:
- Gray and white matter developmental trajectories associated with childhood persistence and recovery. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dachaChow, H.M., Johnson, C., Spray, G., Garnett, E., Koenraads, S., & Chang, S-E (videoconference). (2021, Jan.)
- Nonword repetition task performance in preschoolers who stutter. Poster presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Novelli, A., & Walsh, B. (2021, Jan.)
- Adaptation of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of betboom dacha for people who clutter (OASES-C). Poster presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Scaler Scott, K., & Yaruss, J.S. (2021, Jan.)
- Heightened links between phonological skills and white matter integrity in preschool age children who stutter. Poster presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Spray, G., Chow, H.M., Yaruss, J.S., & Chang, S-E. (2021, Jan.)
- The variability of betboom dacha: behaviors, reactions, and impact. Poster presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Tichenor, S.E., & Yaruss, J.S. (2021, Jan.)
- Differentiating word-form encoding and working memory differences in adults who stutter. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference).Tichenor, S.E., Hampton Wray, A., Ravizza, S., & Yaruss, J.S. (2021, Jan.)
- Understanding the broader impact of betboom dacha: suicidal ideation. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference).Tichenor, S.E., Palasik, S., & Yaruss, J.S. (2021, Jan.)
- Evaluating relationships among predictors of persistence in preschool children who stutter. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Walsh, B., Christ, S., & Weber, C. (2021, Jan.)
- Assessing betboom dacha severity from the perspective of people who stutter. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Yaruss, J.S. (2021, Jan.)
- Conceptualizing the experience of betboom dacha according to people who stutter. Paper presented at the Oxford Dysfluency betboom dacha (videoconference). Yaruss, J.S., & Tichenor, S.E. (2021, Jan.)
By Melissa Priebe