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Kenneth O. St. Louis, Professor

Education:
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M.S., University of Michigan
B.S., Colorado State University

Current Responsibilities:
Research
Classroom teaching
Clinical supervision
Coordinating child and adult stuttering therapy programs

Courses Taught:
SPA 628, Advanced Stuttering
SPA 622, Advanced Voice Disorders
SPA 422, Voice and Stuttering

Research Interests:
Stuttering – Current Projects: Public attitudes toward stuttering internationally, Telling one’s story as an adjunct to therapy; Cluttering – Current Projects: Acoustic and perceptual aspects of cluttering, tachylalia, and normal speech; Coexisting communication disorders

Selected Publications:
St. Louis, K. O., Lubker, B. B., Yaruss, J. S., & Aliveto, E. F. (In press). Development of a prototype questionnaire to survey public attitudes toward stuttering: Reliability of the second prototype. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

St. Louis, K. O., Reichel, I., Yaruss, J. S., & Lubker, B. B. (2009). Construct and concurrent validity of a prototype questionnaire to survey public attitudes toward stuttering. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 34, 11-28.

St. Louis, K. O., Topbas, S., & Ozdemir, R. S. (2008, November). Turkish Stuttering Association: A model project to bring stuttering self-help to Turkey. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 18, 119-123. Electronic publication. Abstract available at <http://div4perspectives.asha.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/3/119>.

St. Louis, K. O. (2005, November). A global project to measure public attitudes of stuttering. The Asha Leader, 10, 12-13; 22. (On-line version available at <http://www.asha.org/publications/leader/archives/2005/051018/051018d.htm >).

St. Louis, K. O., Myers, F. M., Bakker, K., & Raphael, L. J. (2007). Understanding and treating cluttering. In E. G. Conture & R. F. Curlee (Eds.) Stuttering and related disorders of fluency, 3rd ed. (pp. 297-325). NY: Thieme.

Myers, F. L., & St. Louis, K. O. (2007). Cluttering. Memphis, TN: The Stuttering Foundation. (DVD)

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Mailing Address:
PO Box 6122
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
Phone: (304)293-2946
Fax: (304)293-7565

Email Address:
kstlouis@wvu.edu

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