Module 1
3hr pre-recording made available from Monday 25 January 2027

• Recall the evidence base of RESTART-DCM treatment for preschool children who stutter
• Describe the essential elements of this treatment approach

Module 2
Session 1 - (3hr pre-recording) available from Tuesday 9 February 2027
Session 2 - (LIVE Online) Monday 22 February 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEDT
Session 3 - (LIVE Online) Thursday 25 February 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEDT
*Please note daylight saving time

• Describe the DCM approach and DCM multifactorial assessment
• Select demands relevant for lowering in an individual case
• Conduct parent-clinician conference after completing the assessment
• Practise treatment skills regarding reducing motoric and linguistic demands of the child and the environment.

Module 3
Session 1 - (3hr pre-recording) available from Tuesday 2 March 2027
Session 2 - (LIVE Online) Monday 15 March 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEDT
Session 3 - (LIVE Online) Thursday 18 March 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEDT
*Please note daylight saving time

• Practice treatment skills regarding reducing emotional and cognitive demands of the child and the environment
• Increase motoric, linguistic, emotional and cognitive capacities of the child
• Work more directly with the child to experience more fluent ways of stuttering and speaking

Module 4
Session 1 - (LIVE Online) Thursday 1 July 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEST
Session 2 - (LIVE Online) Monday 5 July 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEST
Session 3 - (LIVE Online) Thursday 15 July 2027, 6:30–9:30 pm AEST

• Apply RESTART-DCM approach to practice, including problem solving, primarily driven by (submitted) cases participants have commenced work on.
  
  

Registrants must be speech pathologists or a speech pathology student in their final year of their degree who have completed any course content related to stuttering/fluency disorders.

Associate Professor Marie-Christine Franken
Marie-Christine Franken graduated as a linguist (University of Nijmegen, 1985), speech-language therapist (Hogeschool Nijmegen, 1989), and qualified as a Fluency Expert (1991). Her PhD (University of Nijmegen, 1997) addressed evaluation of stuttering therapy. She has worked for more than 25 years combining clinical work, research and teaching. Currently, she is the principal pediatric speech-language researcher and clinical linguist – fluency expert at the Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and since 2015 a trainer of the RESTART DCM approach for clinicians.

Ellen Laroes
Ellen Laroes graduated as a speech-language therapist (Hogeschool Heerlen, 1985) and qualified as a Fluency Expert (1986). She is registered as a European Fluency Specialist. Ellen works in her private practice specialising in fluency disorders and is a former teacher of Fluency Disorders at Zuyd Hogeschool, University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen. She is connected to the education committee of the Dutch Association for Stuttering Therapy (NVST) and mentor for the European Clinical Specialization in Fluency Disorders (ECSF). Since the eighties, she has been working with the Demands and Capacities Model based treatment and since 2000 with the Lidcombe Program as well. She was one of the participating therapists in the RESTART trial and since 2015 a trainer of the RESTART DCM approach for clinicians.

• Members: $1080
• Non-practicing members: $714
• Student members: $540
• Non members: $1620

*Please note, at the request of the presenters, there is a strict cap for this event.

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