SAY G’day with Dr. Elaina Kefalianos from SAY: Australia

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TOPICS INCLUDE

0:00-7:35: Welcome and opening marks
7:35-13:42: SAY: Australia = magic
13:42-19:01: Being a professional researcher/clinician and also a personal partner with a PWS
19:01-24:20: Navigating stuttering society
24:20-30:00: Bringing data to life and using stories to generate evidence (research data)
30:00-32:56: The inspirational example of Dr. Susan Block and how Elaina discovered her passion for stuttering
32:56-38:02: International perspective and collaboration between Australia-Norway
44:09-45:45: Talking about the intersection of professional and personal stuttering worlds
45:45-58:37: Stereotypes and stigma... Australian accents and Vegemite vs. American accents and peanut butter and jelly
58:00-60:00: Closing remarks

GUEST BIO

Dr. Elaina Kefalianos is the Lead of Teaching and Senior Lecturer for the Master of Speech Pathology course at the University of Melbourne. She has 13 years of clinical research experience. Her current research focuses on better understanding the development of stuttering and recovery in population-level studies and improving management approaches for children who stutter. 

Elaina is Vice-President for the Stuttering Association for the Young: Australia. This is a national not for profit organization for 7-18-year-old Australian young people who stutter. Some of her latest research is focused on conducting trials examining the efficacy of novel creative arts programs to improve psychosocial outcomes for young people who stutter. She is also a chief investigator for the Effective Stuttering Treatment project. Together with colleagues at the University of Oslo in Norway, she is developing a new intervention program for preschool children who stutter.

Elaina’s research has been published in international leading discipline-specific journals. She has received over $2.5M in competitive research grants to date and has been an invited speaker at 4 international seminars. 

Resources and Links

• SAY: Australia

• Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for stuttering in children aged between birth and six years (2019)

• Article: A systematic review of interventions for adults who stutter (2020)
  

HOST BIO

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech; creator of Transcending Stuttering Academy and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.