I am leaving today for the IFA conference in Lisbon, the capital of the Southern European country of Portugal. A great way to meet people from around the world: clinicians, scientists, and people who stutter.
In cooperation with
StutterTalk and the conference organizers, I will be recording podcasts from the conference, together with
Chris Constantino. We will do daily wrap-ups but also conduct interviews with individuals. Peter Reitzes will do the editing work and put them on StutterTalk. I already did a trial podcast interview with Jelena on
Stuttering Treatment in Serbia.
My interviewees include the main organizers Kirsten and Hilda, Nan Rantner (on
early childhood intervention), Per Alm (on
the causes of the moment of stuttering), Paul Brocklehurst (on
the impact of long-term meditation on stuttering), and more.
I will also give two talks:
Obstacles in measuring outcome of early childhood intervention (check out the
Mindool on possible obstacles - you can add and like ideas!) and
A novel biopsychosocial model catering for the complexity of stuttering.
The second talk (of which you can find an older version
here) is closely related to my
just published book on an improved version of the biopsychosocial model (more on my website
BPS2.0, and in a published review article with Gilles Michaux entitled
How the tower of information leads to an integrated framework for biopsychosocial ideas, see
here.)
I will also bring copies of my new book to the conference. Here is a little teaser of the front and back cover!
So I hope to meet some of you at the conference!
