Susan Meyers Fosnot, Ph.D., C.C.C. Slp, Inc.

Research and Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

• FOSNOT, S. (1995). Some contemporary approaches in treating fluency disorders in preschool, school age, and adolescent children. Language Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 26, 115 116.
• FOSNOT, S. (1993). Research design for examining treatment efficacy in fluency disorders. Journal of Fluency Disorders, (invited), 18, 221 252.
• Committee on Prevention of Speech, Language, and Hearing Problems (including MEYERS [FOSNOT], S). The prevention of communication disorders tutorial. Asha, 33, 9, Supplement No. 6, September, 1991.
• Aram, D. MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Ekleman, B. (1991). On valid and reliable identification of normal disfluencies and stuttering disfluencies: A response to Aram, MEYERS [FOSNOT], and Ekelman (1990). Brain and Language, 40, 287 292.
• Gaines, N., Runyan, C., & MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1991). A comparison of young stutterers' fluent versus stuttered utterances on measures of length and complexity. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 34, 37 42.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Hall, N., & Aram, D. (1990). Fluency and language recovery in a child with a left hemisphere lesion. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 15, 159 174.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1990). Verbal behaviors of preschool stutterers and conversational partners: Observing reciprocal relationships. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 55, 706 712.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1990). Tempest in a t test?: A reply to Finn and Gow. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54, 171 174.
• Aram, D., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Ekelman, B. (1990). Fluency of conversational speech in children with unilateral brain lesions. Brain and Language, 38, 105 121.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Ghatak, L., & Woodford, L. (1989). Case descriptions of nonfluency and loci: Initial and follow up conversations with three preschool children Journal of Fluency Disorders, 14, 383 98.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Strang, H., & Hall, E. (1989). Computer simulated training on student clinicians' intervention effectiveness with preschool children. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 14, 135 51.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Hughes, L., & Schoeny. (1989). Temporal Phonemic processing skills in adult male stutterers and nonstutterers. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 32, 274 280.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1989). Nonfluencies of preschool stutterers and conversational partners: Observing reciprocal relationships. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54, 106 112.
• Strang, H. & MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1987). Training effective stuttering intervention skills through the use of a microcomputer. Journal of Voice Input/Output Systems, 4, 20 29.
• Strang, H. & MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1987). A microcomputer simulation to evaluate and train effective intervention techniques in listening partners of preschool stutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 12, (3), 205 216.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1986). Qualitative and quantitative differences and patterns of variability emitted by preschool stutterers and nonstutterers during dyadic conversations. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 11, 293 306.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Freeman, F. (1985). Are mothers of stutterers different? An investigation of social communicative interaction. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 10, 193 209.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Freeman, F. (1985). Interruptions as a variable in stuttering and disfluency. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28, 428 435.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Freeman, F. (1985) Mother and child speech rates as a variable in stuttering and disfluency. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28, 436.

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Woodford, L. (1992). The fluency development system for young children. Austin, TX: Pro-ed Publishers.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Atkinson (1991). Linguistic breakdowns associated with fluency failures and rate of speech in adult neurogenic populations. In Peters, H., Hulstijn, W., & Starkweather, W. (eds.), Speech motor control and stuttering (pp. 285 292). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Scientific Publishers.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1989). Interaction of pre school stutterers: How will this influence therapy? In, Rustin, L. (ed.), Parents, families, and stuttering children. (pp. 40 58). United Kingdom: Far Communication Disorders.

REFEREED ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS:

• FOSNOT, S., & Jun, S. (1999) Prosodic characteristics in children with stuttering or autism during reading and imitation. ICPS.
• FOSNOT, S. (1997). Vowel development of /i/ and /u/ in 15-36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter. EuroSpeech '97, 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol. 2, 1051-1054.
• FOSNOT, S. (1994). Vocal development in 6 to 36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95, No. 5, 3013.
• FOSNOT, S., Holland, S., Montgomery, J.,Daniels, S., & Schroeder, J. (1993). Preschool fluency intervention: From a hospital and a school perspective. Csha.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1991). Fluency evaluation and intervention for preschool stutterers and their parents. Asha, 33, 78.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1991). Treating stuttering in a child with superior psycholinguistic abilities. Asha, 33, 178.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1991). Fluency development in young stutterers: Differential diagnosis and treatment. CSHA, 17, 26.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Bernstein Ratner, N. (1990). Parent child verbal interaction and stuttering: Research and therapeutic implications. Asha, 32, 102.
• Sparks, S., Simpson, J., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Knauf, (1990). Prevention: What to Teach What to do. Asha, 32, 138.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Runyan, C., & Prosek, R. (1990). Naturalness of speech production in treated preschool stutterers. Asha, 32, 112.
• Boada, K., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1990). Verbal communicative patterns of stutterers following intervention. Asha, 32, 67.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Atkinson, J. (1990). Linguistic breakdowns associated with fluency failures and rate of speech in adult neurogenic populations. Speech Motor Control Proceedings, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Aram, D., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Ekelman, B. (1989). Fluency of conversational speech in Children with unilateral brain lesions. Asha, 31, 111.
• Hall, N., Aram, D., & MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1989). Fluency characteristics of language disordered children: A case study. Asha, 31, 179.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Flowers, D., Pickering, J., & Matsko, T. (1989). Discontinuity and rate of speech in adult neurogenic populations. Asha, 31, 112.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1989). Changing speech behavior in stuttering children. Asha, 31, 101.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Caskey, K., & Aram, D. (1989). Conversational disfluency in a left unilateral brain lesioned child. Asha, 31, 164.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1988). Symposium on Prevention: Fluency and Phonology. Asha, 30, 121.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1988). Computer Simulated training on student clinicians' intervention effectiveness with preschool stutterers. Asha, 30, 170.
• Ghatak, L., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Woodford, L. (1988). Case studies of nonfluency in fluency disordered, language impaired, and normally nonfluent children. Asha, 30, 105.
• Gaines, N., Runyan, C., Bennett, C., & MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1987). Fluency effects of increased length and complexity in spontaneous speech. ASHA, 29, 99.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1987). Disfluency patterns of stutterers interacting with different communicating partners. ASHA, 29, 155.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Strang, H., & Cartmell, D. (1987). A simulation for training stuttering intervention. ASHA, 29, 201.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Strang, H. (1987). Microcomputer simulation training for student clinicians intervening with young stutterers. AVIOS Proceedings, 175 188.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1987). Verbal Communicative Patterns of Mother, Father, Peer Partners Interacting with Young Stutterers. SRCD, 59.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Hughes, L. (1986). Auditory processing skills in adult male stutterers and nonstutterers. ASHA, 28, 108.
• Strang, H., MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., & Cartmell, D. (1986). The use of a microcomputer simulation in training clinicians to intervene with young stutterers Part I: System description. AVIOS Proceedings, 485 495.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Strang, H., & Cartmell, D. (1986). The use of a microcomputer simulation in training clinicians to intervene with young stutterers Part II: Content description. AVIOS Proceedings, 497 507.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Bull, G., & Cartmell, D. (1986). Using a phrase editor to calculate the rate of speech. Computer Conference Proceedings from the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation, 70.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Heuer, R. (1985). Comparison of three methods of measuring children's fluent conversational rate. ASHA, 27, 186.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1984). Guidelines and strategies for differentiating stutterer's communicative patterns. ASHA, 26, 141.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Tobey, E. (1984). Voice onset time in persons with residual frequency hearing. ASHA, 26, 76.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. (1983). Stuttering/Disfluency as a variable of mother child interaction. Dissertation Abstracts International, 4408 A.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Freeman, F. (1983). Qualitative and quantitative differences between young stutterers and nonstutterers. ASHA, 24, 66.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S. & Freeman, F. (1983). Mother's communicative patterns with young stuttering and nonstuttering children. ASHA, 24, 66.
• MEYERS [FOSNOT], S., Friel Patti, S., & Freeman, F. (1981). Language development in Sturge Weber syndrome: A descriptive case study. ASHA, 23, 811.

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS: (Papers were given by Susan MEYERS [FOSNOT] unless specified.)

• "Prosodic characteristics in children with stuttering or autism during reading and imitation." San Francisco, CA, ICPS, 1999.
• "Vowel development of /i/ and /u/ in 15-36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter. EuroSpeech '97, 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Greece, September, 1997.
• "Implementing statistical design that examines treatment efficacy in a fluency development program for young children (by Sumiko Takayanagi). Second World Congress on Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, August, 1997.
• "Vowel Development in children at risk & not at risk to stutter between 6-36 months of age." Second World Congress on Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, August, 1997.
• "Vocal development in 6 to 36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter." Fourth Oxford disfluency Conference, June, 1996.
• "Examining treatment efficacy in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood fluency disorders." Fourth Oxford disfluency Conference, June, 1996.
• "Vocal development in 6 to 36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter." May, 1994.
• "Diagnosis of Fluency Disorders in Young Children." Presented at the Montreal Speech and Hearing Association Convention, November, 1992.
• "Fluency Intervention with Preschool Children." Presented at the Montreal Speech and Hearing Association Convention, November, 1992.
• "Research Design for Examining Treatment Efficacy in Fluency Disorders: Pre school children: Preventative intervention; early intervention; assessment of remission." Presented at the National Institutes of Health NIDCD, Bethesda, September, 1992.
• "Fluency evaluation and intervention for preschool stutterers and their parents." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Atlanta, November, 1991.
• "Treating stuttering in a child with superior psycholinguistic abilities." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Atlanta, November, 1991.
• "Parent Communicative Interactions pre, post, and following counseling." Presented at the International Association of Logopedic Practioners, Paris, September, 1991.
• "Fluency development in young stutterers: Differential diagnosis and treatment." Presented at the California Speech Language Hearing Association, Long Beach, April, 1991.
• "Parent child verbal interaction and stuttering: Research and therapeutic implications." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Seattle, November, 1990.
• "Prevention: What to Teach What to do." Presented (by Shirley Sparks) at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Seattle, November, 1990.
• "Naturalness of speech production in treated preschool stutterers." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Seattle, November, 1990.
• "Verbal communicative patterns of stutterers following intervention." Presented (by Katheryn Boada) at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Seattle, November, 1990.
• "Linguistic breakdowns associated with fluency failures and rate of speech in adult neurogenic populations." Presented at Speech Motor Control Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June, 1990.
• "Fluency of conversational speech in Children with unilateral brain lesions." Presented (by Dorothy Aram) at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, St. Louis, November, 1989.
• "Fluency characteristics of language disordered children: A case study." Presented (by Nancy Hall) at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, St. Louis, November, 1989.
• "Discontinuity and rate of speech in adult neurogenic populations." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, St. Louis, November, 1989.
• "Changing speech behavior in stuttering children." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, St. Louis, November, 1989.
• "Conversational disfluency in a left unilateral brain lesioned child." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, St. Louis, November, 1989.
• "Conversational disfluency in a child with a left unilateral brain lesion." Presented (by Karin Caskey) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "Conversational fluency of brain injured and normal adults: Continuity." Presented (by Doris Flowers) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "Disfluency and grammatical function in initial and follow up conversations with three preschool children." Presented (by Lila Ghatak) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "OARS: A computerized observation analysis recording system for clinical supervision." Presented (by Lee Woodford) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "The contemporary stutter free speech program: Technological advances and case study descriptions." Presented at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "Verbal communicative patterns of parents of stutterers: Pre , post , and 6 months after intervention." Presented (by Kathy Cottrill) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, McLean, April, 1989.
• "Symposium on Prevention: Fluency and Phonology." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Boston, November, 1988.
• "Computer Simulated training on student clinicians' intervention effectiveness with preschool stutterers." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Boston, November, 1988.
• "Case studies of nonfluency in fluency disordered, language impaired, and normally nonfluent children." presented (by Lila R. Ghatak) at the America speech Language Hearing Association, Boston, November, 1988.
• "The University of Virginia fluency development clinic: Diagnosis treatment research with preschool stutterers and parents." Presented at the Second International Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, August, 1988.
• "Assessing fluency disorders in young children." Presented (by Joy H. Wynns) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Differentiating between language disfluency and stuttering disfluency." Presented by (Lila R.Ghatak) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Therapy for young fluency disordered children." Presented (by Gretchen M. Ahlbrand) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Humanistic counseling for parents of fluency disordered children." Presented by (Carol A.Depew) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Behavioristic counseling for parents of fluency disordered children." Presented (by Robin D. Goldstein) at the Speech and Hearing Association, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Supervision with student clinicians working with fluency disordered children." Presented by (Lee Woodford) at the Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "Research on parent child interaction and fluency disorders." Presented at the Speech and Hearing Association, Roanoke, April, 1988.
• "A simulation for training stuttering intervention." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, New Orleans, November, 1987.
• "Disfluency patterns of stutterers interacting with different communicating partners." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, New Orleans, November, 1987.
• "Fluency effects of increased length and complexity in spontaneous speech." Presented (by Natalie D. Gaines) at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, New Orleans, November, 1987.
• "Microcomputer simulation training for student clinicians intervening with young stutterers." Presented at AVIOS, Alexandria, Virginia, October, 1987.
• "Verbal social communicative interaction between parents and their fluent and disfluent children." Presented in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May, 1987.
• "Content description of a simulation: Disfluent stories spoken by preschool stutterers." Paper presented (by Emily L. Hall) at the Teacher Training Workshop, Charlottesville, April, 1987.
• "Verbal communicative patterns of mother, father, peer partners interacting with young stutterers." Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1987.
• "Identification of fluency disorders in young children." Presented at the Curry School of Education, March, 1987.
• "Central auditory processing skills in adult stutterers and nonstutterers." Presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Detroit Michigan, November, 1986.
• "The use of a microcomputer simulation in training clinicians to intervene with young stutterers. System Description: Part I." Presented (by Dr. Strang), at the AVIOS conference, Alexandria Virginia September, 1986.
• "The use of a microcomputer simulation in training clinicians to intervene with young stutterers. Content Description: Part II." Presented at the AVIOS conference, Alexandria Virginia, September, 1986.
• "Psychosocial aspects in diagnosing and treating young stutterers". Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Charlottesville, June, 1986.
• "Guidelines and strategies for differentiating young stutterer's communicative patterns." Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia, Williamsburg, April, 1986.
• "Comparison of three methods of measuring children's fluent conversational rate." American Speech Language Hearing Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1985.
• "Diagnosis and treatment for the young stuttering child." Pennsylvania Speech and Hearing Association Harrisburg, April, 1985.
• "Guidelines and strategies for differentiating stutterer's communicative patterns." American Speech Language Hearing Association, San Francisco, November, 1984.
• "Voice onset time in persons with residual high frequency hearing." American Speech Language Hearing Association, San Francisco, November, 1984.
• "The relationship between stuttering in young children and their parent's reaction towards stuttering: Guidelines and strategies for early intervention." Temple University's Annual Diamond Conference, Philadelphia, April, 1984.
• "Mother's communicative patterns with young stuttering and nonstuttering children." American Speech Language Hearing Association, Ohio, November, 1983.
• "Qualitative and quantitative differences between young stutterers and nonstutterers." American Speech Language Hearing Association, Ohio, November, 1983.
• "Assessment of mother child communicative patterns in young stuttering children." Texas Speech and Hearing Association, Dallas, March, 1983.
• "Stuttering/Disfluency as a variable of mother child interaction." American Speech Language Hearing Association, Toronto, November, 1982.
• "Language development in Sturge Weber Syndrome." American Speech Language Hearing Association, Los Angeles, November, 1981.
• "Sturge Weber Syndrome." Texas Speech and Hearing Association, Fort Worth, March,1981.