WHEN I STUTTER is available for CEUs for SLPs through Xceptional Ed. The course consists of viewing the feature-length version of the documentary followed by a discussion about the importance of understanding the emotional impact of stuttering with Speech-Language Pathologist John Gomez. John is also the director of the film and a professor at Cal State LA where he teaches Psychosocial Considerations and the grad level Stuttering Course.
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- CEUs are currently approved in California and Arizona.
- This course can be submitted to ASHA as an acceptable professional development activity
- After completing this course,
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- the student will be able to initiate a conversation with a client to discuss the emotional impact that stuttering has had in their life.
- the student will be able to identify the emotional impact stuttering can have and how that information should determine the course of therapy.
- the student will be able to consider the essential role of active listening in therapy.
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Sensitive viewers should be aware the film contains 4-5 expletives, discussion of suicide, and a depiction of a barroom brawl. There is an expletive-free version of the film.