A clinical training model for students: intensive treatment of stuttering using prolonged speech.

Purpose: This study describes a practical model for improving the quality of Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) education on a clinical setting in a Bulgarian University. During this study, adults who stutter (AWS) received intensive treatment (IT) to increase fluent speech. The intensive treatment was delivered by students trained in the SLP Master's degree program "Logopedics Management in Fluency and Voice Disorders".

Intensive non-avoidance group therapy with stutterer adults: preliminary results.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate and document the use and efficacy of intensive non-avoidance group treatment for Bulgarian adults who stutter (AWS), to specify that changes are adopted in different speech situations (in the stabilization phase), and to demonstrate that changes are maintained after intensive therapy.

Methods: Participants were AWS (n=15, 12 males) with an average age of 25.2 years) Bulgarian native-speakers.

Education of speech and language therapists/logopedists in selected Central and Southeastern European countries: challenges and new horizons.

Objective: To provide an overview of student training in speech and language therapy/logopedics (SLT) in selected Central and Southeastern European countries (Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey).

Method: Data were collected using a special questionnaire developed by Söderpalm and supplemented by Georgieva. Results from 23 SLT programs in the seven countries were collected and organized.

Identification of cluttering and stuttering by the public in four countries.

The investigators sought to explore and compare the identification of cluttering vs stuttering in four different country samples. After reading lay definitions of the two fluency disorders in their own language, convenience samples of 60-90 adult respondents from Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia, and the US identified 51-119 children or adults who either cluttered, stuttered, or both. They also indicated whether or not they, themselves, cluttered or stuttered.

Education of logopedists or speech-language pathologists in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Poland and Russia.

This article provides an overview of student training programs in logopedics in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Poland and the Russian Federation. The data were collected using a special questionnaire developed by Söderpalm in 2006 and supplemented by the author. Bachelor's, master's and PhD programs in the field of pure logopedics no longer exist in some countries.

[Experience and personal report about an international cooperation research--Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey--Attitudes Toward Stuttering].

Background: People typically regard stutterers as shy, nervous, introverted, and fearful, a so-called "stuttering stereotype". Many stutterers are also subjected to teasing and bullying or to illegal discrimination.

Aim: Currently, there are no widely-accepted, standardized instruments used to measure public attitudes toward stuttering around the world.