ASHA Learning Pass

These Perspectives (SIG 17) articlespresent a collaborative initiative of the Committee of International Representatives of the International Cluttering Association. Reichel et al., discuss the initiative that began with the Inaugural Joint World Congress in Japan in 2018. Van Zaalen and Reichel present and discuss the auditory-visual feedback training methodology. Gosselin and Ward affirm that cluttering is a fluency disorder that is mainly characterized by an abnormally rapid or irregular rate of speech. Their pilot study expanded the evidence base by using a Stroop Task to investigate attention performance in people with cluttering. Hilda Sønsterud discuss the term working alliance as an important concept in cluttering and stuttering therapy and describe the degree to which the therapy dyad is engaged in collaborative, purposive work.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• interpret the findings in relation to potential neurological underpinnings of cluttering
• explain the rationale for the auditory-visual feedback training
• describe the research and clinical treatments specific to cluttering that are receiving attention in the international community
• describe how The Working Alliance Inventory is regarded as one useful tool to evaluate client–clinician relationships