Spring Symposium

Each year, the UND Department of Communication & Sciences Disorders partners with Minnesota State University Moorhead to offer a spring symposium.

MSUM/UND Spring Symposium

The 2024 Sping Symposium will be held on April 18-19, 2024 at the University of North Dakota Memorial Union.

Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy and School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Approach

Speaker: J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA

Following this workshop, participants will be able to:

Design efficient, effective, and comprehensive diagnostic evaluations of children who stutter
Select and implement 3 appropriate treatment strategies for helping children who stutter speak more easily and communicate more effectively
Help students of all ages identify, understand, and overcome affective and cognitive reactions to stuttering
Describe several ways to effectively involve families, teachers, and others in the treatment plan

About Dr. J. Scott Yaruss

J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA, is a Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University, where his research on stuttering is funded by both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Yaruss has extensive experience working with children and adults who stutter in a variety of clinical settings. He has given more than 800 continuing education workshops around the world, designed to help speech-language pathologists become more confident in their ability to help individuals who stutter.

He has authored or coauthored more than 400 papers, articles, blog posts, chapters, or booklets on stuttering, including the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES), as well as School-age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide, Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide, Minimizing Bullying in Children Who Stutter, and other materials published by Stuttering Therapy Resources.

2024 Symposium Schedule

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In order meet our catering deadline, please register by March 27, 2024. Registration will be open until the date of event.

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Professional Graduate Credit Registration

Date Registration Opens: 02/08/2024
Date Registration Closes: 04/26/2024

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Parking

Passport parking will be available to symposium attendees. The closest passport parking to the Memorial Union is in the parking ramp, east of the Memorial Union. Passport parking is available on the west side of the 1st and 4th floor and the entire 5th floor of the ramp. Instructions for passport parking can be found here.

Hotel Information

A block of rooms has been set up at LaQuinta in Grand Forks. Individual reservation under block must be made by APRIL 1, 2024 11:59 p.m. After this date, group rate is not available and rooms are subject to availability.

How to Book Room

Call hotel directly (701-314-1106): select option for hotel front desk agent/operator and mention 04172024 MSUM/UND SYMPOSIUM room block
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