News

Updates from our research group’s activities

Word Stuttering and Cluttering Congress

The May 2024 WSCO Congress in Austin provided an excellent opportunity for all SRG lab members to reconnect, share their research with fellow researchers, speech-language pathologists, and people who stutter, and revisit the Arthur M.

Upcoming ESS symposium Antwerp

The European Stuttering Specialization organizes on February 20-22nd 2025 a symposium and pre-symposium workshops with several internationally renowned speakers. For more information and registration see here.  The Stuttering Research Group will present a recent study

Training at the Michael Palin Center London

As part of her training for the European Stuttering Specialization, Gizem Aslan was fortunate to be selected as one of the trainees at the Michael Palin Center. She gained many valuable insights in working with

Stuttering mouse art

With Ever After: A Trilogy (I... I... I...) (2019), is a work by Ryan Gander, a London based artist. It stages an animatronic mouse with a stutter, nestled in a hole in the wall, surprising

Sabbatical visit professor Tumanova

From February to April 2025, professor Tumanova will stay at the Stuttering Research Group of Ghent University. Dr. Tumanova’s primary research interest is on the onset and development of stuttering in early childhood. Her research

Presenting at ASHA Seattle

The convention of the American Speech-Language, and Hearing Association is one of the largest professional development events for speech-language pathologists, bringing together approximately 15,000 attendees. For more information, see here.  Together with Sharon Millard and

PhD defense Veera Pirinen

Friday, October 11th 2024, Veera Pirinen defended her doctorate on 'Speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls' with flying colors in Oulu. Congratulations to Dr. Pirinen! Thanks to Soile Loukusa for co-supervising and Kathleen

PhD defense Selma Saad

Saturday, November 30th 2024, Selma Saad defended her doctorate on ‘Speech disfluencies in bilingual children: An inquiry into the differential diagnosis of stuttering’ with flying colors at the University of Turku. Congratulations to Dr. Saad!

PhD defense Maria Paphiti

Friday, November 29th 2024, Maria Paphiti successfully defended her doctorate on ‘Inhibitory Control and Cognitive Flexibility in Children who Stutter’ at the University of Turku. Congratulations to Dr. Paphiti! Thanks to Katerina Ntourou who served

Learn to listen to people who stutter

On World Stuttering Day, FWO researchers Gizem Aslan, Annelien Dorme, and Iris Heselmans (Ghent University) shared their valuable findings on stuttering. With innovative studies on the underlying mechanisms and the power of listening, they hope

Interview Radio Dolmus Ghent

Friday, January 10th ‘25, Gizem Aslan was was invited by Radyo Dolmuş to talk about her research on stuttering and multilingualism. For those interested (and speaking Turkish!), listen here.[vc_column_text css=""…