Live
broadcast (one-time viewing only): September 3, 2025,
3:00–5:00 p.m. Eastern time
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chance to sign up: September 3, 2025, Noon, Eastern
time
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Description:
This
webinar will provide an overview of the strengths-based CARE Model framework
for stuttering assessment, which reframes stuttering services by shifting focus
away from the frequency or severity of disfluencies and instead highlights each
person’s distinct strengths across four key pillars (communication,
advocacy, resilience, and education). The speaker will provide examples of
assessment that can lead to meaningful, functional outcomes and actionable,
short-term goals that empower children and adults who stutter to speak with
confidence, authenticity, and agency.
Content
disclosure: This session focuses on a specific model for stuttering assessment
and treatment.
Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- Describe the four key pillars of
the CARE Model (Communication, Advocacy,
Resilience, Education) and
explain how each pillar contributes to a
holistic, strengths-based assessment
process
- Identify and articulate how the
CARE Model reframes assessment by shifting
the focus from fluency metrics to
recognizing and building on individual
strengths
- Apply the CARE Model to develop
personalized, growth-oriented intervention
plans that are affirming, effective,
and tailored to each
individual’s unique experiences and goals
- Analyze assessment data through
the lens of the CARE Model to determine
meaningful, functional outcomes that
extend beyond traditional measures of
stuttering frequency or severity
You May Also Be Interested in...
Stuttering Treatment: Applying the Strengths-Based CARE Model, a follow-up to this
webinar.
Presenter
Information
Courtney
T. Byrd, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a Professor at The University of Texas
at Austin and serves as Founding and Executive Director of the Arthur M. Blank
Center for Stuttering Education and Research, which includes the Michael and
Tami Lang Stuttering Institute, the Dealey Family Foundation Stuttering Clinic,
and the Bodner Developmental Stuttering Lab. She has 100+ publications and has
dedicated her life's work to developing the CARE Model (and the related
intensive dosage “Camp Dream. Speak. Live.”), a strengths-based approach to the
assessment and treatment of stuttering.
Disclosures:
- Salary as a Professor at UT
Austin (but does not receive salary for role at the Blank Center)
- Developer of for-sale materials
on implementation of CARE Model
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new knowledge.
To earn continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning assessment by September 5, 2025.
Program
History and CE
Information
Live webinar: September 3, 2025
3:00–5:00 p.m. Eastern time
This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
