Program Title: Fluency Disorders: Stuttering and Cluttering
Faculty Presenter: Lynn Fox, M.A., M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Course Description: This course will provide a review of the current theories
regarding the causes of stuttering, how to differentiate between normal disfluencies and
stuttering-type disfluencies, and how to evaluate and treat children and adults who stutter
or clutter.
Objectives
Following completion of the program, the participant will be able to:
 Describe the difference between fluency, disfluency, and stuttering.
 Compare and contrast the core and secondary behaviors associated with
developmental stuttering, acquired stuttering, and cluttering.
 Identify assessment and intervention protocols commonly used with children
and adults who stutter or clutter and their families.
Format: Live (3 hours)
Target Audience: Speech-language pathologists working in schools, hospitals, or
private practices
Biography: Lynn Fox has been an assistant professor and speech-language pathologist
on the UNC Craniofacial Team since 2004. In addition to her craniofacial caseload, she
sees children and adults with multiple speech and language disorders, focusing mainly on
fluency disorders. She also teaches the Fluency Disorders course at UNC. Prior to her
work at UNC, she was a clinical speech-language pathologist at Akron Children’s
Hospital and was a member of the Akron Craniofacial Team in Akron, Ohio for 5 years
and for the 6 years prior to that, she was a clinical speech-language pathologist at Duke
University Medical Center where she was a member of the Duke Craniofacial Team in
addition to being the director of the Fluency Development Clinic. She has also served as
a speech-language pathologist in the public schools and in a multi-disciplinary private
clinic. She was also one of the founders of TAPOLE, an assistive technology lending
library in Raleigh. She also has completed specialty training through the Stuttering
Foundation of America.