Behavior Assessment Battery for Adults Who Stutter (Online Access)

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Martine Vanryckeghem, Gene J. Brutten

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ISBN13: 978-1-59756-901-9

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The Behavior Assessment Battery for Adults Who Stutter is an online-only, multi-dimensional set of inter-related, evidence-based, self-report tests that provide normative data for adults. The Battery has evolved and been refined over many years and has been used with an innumerable number of clients all over the world.

These self-report test procedures provide speech-language pathologists and other professionals assisting individuals who are dysfluent, with a multi-modal view of how an adult is affected by how they feel react to, and think about their speech. The test battery contains four different assessment tools investigating the affective, behavioral and cognitive dimensions that are essential in exploring what comprises a dysfluent client. Aside from assisting in differential diagnosis, the tests' items give direction to treatment by indicating the specific targets in need of therapeutic intervention.

This manual presents four self-report test procedures that are a part of the Behavior Assessment Battery (BAB). Each of them has been standardized on American adults who do and do not stutter. More specifically, the manual provides the clinician with the information necessary to appropriately use: the Speech Situation Checklist – Emotional Reaction (SSC-ER) and Speech Disruption (SSC-SD), which is a means of evaluating a client's reported negative emotional reaction and dysfluency in a range of different speech situations; the Behavior Checklist (BCL) which helps determine the number, type and frequency with which mal-adaptive avoidance and escape responses that are secondary to the anticipation or the presence of speech difficulty are used by a client; and the Communication Attitude Test for Adults (BigCAT), a communication attitude scale that assesses an individual's speech-associated beliefs.

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Martine Vanryckeghem

Martine Vanryckeghem, PhD received her Master's Degree (1991) and PhD (1994) from Southern Illinois University after having worked for 12 years as a speech pathologist at a clinical center in Belgium. Dr. Vanryckeghem, who is a professor at the University of Central Florida, is clinically certified as a speech-language pathologist, is an ASHA fellow, and a Board Certified Fluency Specialist. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has given workshops, internationally, with respect to the assessment and treatment of children and adults whose fluency is problematic. For her international endeavors, Dr. Vanryckeghem received ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contribution in International Achievement. From 1990 until 2000, she was the managing editor of the Journal of Fluency Disorders and is currently an editorial consultant for several professional journals. Dr. Vanryckeghem is on the Scientific Board of different internationally-based organizations and serves as a consultant to faculty and students of various university-based clinical programs. She was inducted in the Scroll and Quill Society at the University of Central Florida.

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Gene J. Brutten

Gene J. Brutten, PhD, received his PhD from the University of Illinois, and was clinically certified in speech pathology and audiology by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He was a fellow of the association and was awarded its Certificate of Recognition and Certificate of Appreciation. Professor Brutten was a founding member of the International Fluency Association and served as the editor-in-chief of its Journal of Fluency Disorders from 1989 to 2000. In 1971 and again in 1978, he received a Fulbright-Hays award to the Department of Foniatrie at the University of Utrecht Academic Hospital, the Netherlands, where he conducted clinically-based research. He co-authored the seminal book "Modification of Stuttering," has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters, and has given over 200 professional presentations in three continents on differential assessment and behavior therapy. Dr. Brutten was an emeritus professor in the Southern Illinois University Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, where he served as department chair, and in its Department of Psychology. In 2002, Dr. Brutten received the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and in 2009, he was similarly honored by the International Fluency Association. Dr. Brutten passed away in March 2013.

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