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After the conference, the International Fluency Association Global Workshop was organized. This one-day workshop, delivered in English with consecutive translation into Polish, was titled Building Core Skills in Working with School-Age Children Who Stutter. Jane Harley, who is a specialist from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, UK, was the trainer for this workshop. Participants not only from Poland but also therapists from Czech Republic, Germany, Lebanon, and Slovakia gathered for this exceptional workshop.
Other events that were a part of the ‘Labyrinths of Communication’ campaign included an open forum for teachers, educators and parents dedicated to the issues of communication problems in today’s society. The Annual Convention of the Polish National Association of People Who Stutter and open meetings for children who stutter and their parents also were parts of this event.
Children who participate in therapy in the Logopedic Centre in Katowice with some support from the students of the University of Silesia prepared fairy tales about their heroes who stutter. Posters with these fairy tales were presented at the University venue during the ‘Labyrinth of Communication’ campaign.
More details about the ‘Labyrinths of Communication’ campaign and the conference itself can be found on the conference website:
www.konferencja-zpm.edu.pl
Thanks to the courtesy of and with the permission of the Stuttering Foundation, the Polish version of the SF DVD “Cluttering” (narrated by Dr. Florence Myers and Dr. Kenneth O. St. Louis) was prepared. This exceptional educational material is now available on the conference website. Especially for this conference, the international research team—Karin Koltay from Austria/Sweden, Dr. Hana Laciková from Slovakia, Loryn McGill from the USA, and Dr. Katarzyna Węsierska from Poland—prepared a multilingual preventive leaflet and poster dedicated to the issue of early stuttering intervention. This material can be downloaded from the conference website as well.
Izabela Michta – the leader of Silesian self-help groups for PWS (Club J and Speakers’ Club)
Katarzyna Węsierska, University of Silesia, Logopedic Centre in Katowice, Poland
International Conference on Logopedics Fluency Disorders: Theory and Practice at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
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