WEB-BASED ANXIETY TREATMENT FOR ADULTS WHO STUTTER

The University of Sydney Australia

Australian Stuttering Research Center

Faculty of Health Sciences

The Australian Stuttering Research Center (ASRC) at The University of Sydney, Australia, is conducting a research project investigating the effect of a web-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) program on speech-related anxiety. Any adult who stutters (age 18 years and over) with functional English skills (reading and writing) is welcome to participate. This research project is being conducted internationally.

If you are interested in participating in the study, you can access the web-based CBT program by emailing the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (asrc@sydney.edu.au) and answering a brief questionnaire about your stuttering and treatment history – your consent to participate in the study will be implied on receipt of this information.

Once you login, you will have access to the web-based CBT program for a 5 month period. The program can be completed at your own pace, and should be accessed on a regular weekly basis in oder to gain the full benefit of the program.

The program involves working through a series of graded tasks which have been designed by a psychologist to help reduce speech-related anxiety. Before and immediately after completing the program, you will be asked to complete some online questionnaires which are designed to give us a clear picture of the experience of anxiety for adults who stutter. These questionnaires may take up to an hour to complete on each of these two occasions.

If you have any questions about this study or if you would like further information, please feel free to contact The Australian Stuttering Research Center on +61 2 9351 9061 (phone), or asrc@sydney.edu.au (email). The study is being conducted by Professor Mark Onslow, Associate Professor Ross Menzies, Associate Professor Ann Packman and Dr. Sue O’Brian.

You are welcome to pass this information on to anyone who might be interested.

The conference took place at the Sandman Hotel in Vancouver, August 2011

After the workshops on Saturday, the conference featured a special presentation from the British Columbia Association of People who Stutter.

For this presentation, Mia Austinson, past president of BCAPS, spoke about Camp BCAPS, a social camp for children who stutter. Mia called up young people who had attended the camp to speak about their experiences there. Everyone was very impressed with what BCAPS has accomplished with their unique and successful camps.