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AT THE END OF AUGUST 2016, the second edition of the International Conference on Logopedics (Fluency Disorders: Theory and Practice) took place in Poland.
The main goal of this event was to promote the achievements and the latest research findings in the field of fluency disorders as well as to share knowledge and experiences among SLTs and consumers.
The keynote speakers who presented at this conference were prominent national and international experts in the field of speech pathology: Jane Harley (UK), Dr. Hana Laciková (Slovakia), Dr. Florence Myers (USA), Dr. Karel Neubauer (Czech Republic), Dr. Izabela Reichel (USA), Dr. Krzysztof Szamburski (Poland), and Dr. Martine Vanryckeghem (USA).
Speech-language therapists gather in Poland.
Consumer experts (representatives of persons who stutter/clutter) also accepted the invitation to present at the conference: Zdzisław Gładosz from the Polish National Stuttering Association OSTOJA in Lublin, Benny Ravid from AMBI – Israel Stuttering Association, and Rutger Wilhelm from the Netherlands – the chair of the Consumer Issues Committee of the International Cluttering Association.
Poster sessions, seminars, and workshops were included in the program, allowing the attendees to expand their knowledge and to improve their qualifications. The conference was an opportunity to integrate not only scientists and practitioners but also consumers (people who stutter or clutter). Participants were mainly from Poland, but colleagues from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Lebanon, and Slovakia were also in attendance.
This edition of the conference was unique also due to the fact that the organizers planned a series of satellite events, which formed the social-educational campaign "Labyrinths of Communication".
Before the conference, Polish speech-language pathologists had a chance to participate in a two-day workshop titled "Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Children Under Seven Who Stutter". Forty-one Polish SLPs participated in this workshop, which was run by Katarzyna Wesierska and supervised by a specialist from the Michael Palin Centre in London.
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Theory and Practice at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland International Conference on Logopedics Fluency Disorders
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