Intensive Summer Fluency Program 2012

PATS - Program for the Advanced Treatment of Stuttering 　
Program Summary: PATS is an intensive, summer day-program for pre-teens, teens and adults with persistent stuttering. Discover and gain control: Get to know your speech mechanism, and your speech attitudes. Then, build a new speech toolbox. Each day you will learn new speech tools, giving you more and more control over your fluency and stuttering. Because the program is fast-paced and lock-step (each new skill builds on a previous skill), full atten-dance to the program is required. Succeed through practice: Practice your new speech tools in a supportive group environment, and on "speech outings" on the USF Tampa campus. A group format encourages social interac-tion and teamwork. Participants work together to achieve speech targets. Become your own speech clinician: Learn to evaluate your performance, positively and productively, as you work toward daily speech targets. By the time you leave the clinic, you will be your own speech clinician, armed with the knowledge and skills to maintain your new speech tools in the long term. 　
Program Information:
Dates: July 9th-27th, Monday-Friday
8:45 a.m.-4 p.m. Location: University of South Florida, Tampa Offered to*: Pre-teens, teens and adults with persis-tent stuttering. *Participants from last summer may en-roll in a "refresher" course Cost: $550 for new participants*.
$150 for "refresher" course.
*Cost includes ~90 hours of treatment, a treatment manual, and snacks. Partici-pants must bring their own lunch. Program director: Nathan Maxfield, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor, USF
813-974-6190, nmaxfield@usf.edu To enroll, please contact: Kathy Wasson
813-974-9844, kjwasson@usf.edu 　
Program Outcomes: PATS
Learn about speech anatomy, speech sound formation, and behav-iors that define stuttering.
Dissect your stuttering to under-stand exactly how and why your speech gets interrupted physically.
Begin to take control of your stutter-ing by modifying it.
Learn how to speak with greater flu-ency through careful planning, shap-ing, and highlighting of utterances.
Learn how to maintain your new skills by setting realistic goals, un-derstanding how stress affects speech tool use, and learning to con-quer fear in speaking.
*participants will... PATS is a less intensive adaptation of Pat Sacco’s residential Fluency Manage-ment Program. We are grateful to Mr. Sacco for sharing his expertise and his program materials.