Financial:
Kathleen Scaler Scott is the author/co-author/co-editor of books that may be mentioned during the presentation. She receives royalties for these books. She will receive an honorarium for this presentation.

Non-Financial:
Kathleen Scaler Scott is the co-founder/co-host of Cluttering Conversations, a free podcast on SoundCloud that features the first-person experiences of people who clutter.

Kathleen Scaler Scott is a practicing speech-language pathologist, Board Certified Specialist in Stuttering, Cluttering and Fluency, and Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA, USA. She has been a practicing clinician for over 30 years in hospital, school, and private practice settings.
Dr. Scaler Scott received the Deso Weiss Award for Excellence in the field of cluttering and the Professional of the Year Award from the National Stuttering Association. She is author of Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses and has conducted and published quantitative and qualitative research studies in the areas of cluttering, atypical disfluency, autism and child language and literacy disorders. In her free time, she enjoys reading, running and traveling.

Cluttering can be one of the trickiest disorders to diagnose. This course offers practical strategies for evaluating clients with suspected cluttering. We’ll address current best practice for defining cluttering, evaluating cluttering, and differentially diagnosing cluttering features from other disorders. You’ll gain tools and strategies for focusing on the current state of evidence in treatment of cluttering.

Cluttering is a communication disorder that is often misunderstood. New information is emerging about cluttering, making diagnosis and differential diagnosis more straightforward. This seminar will focus on dispelling existing myths about cluttering and outlining the process for differential diagnosis. The current state of the evidence, including the first-person experience of cluttering, will be presented and applied to assessment and treatment.

Participants will be able to:
• Define cluttering according to the Lowest Common Denominator definition
• State two myths and two truths about diagnosing cluttering
• State 3 strategies for differential diagnosis of cluttering, stuttering, atypical disfluency, and covert stuttering
• State two strategies for differential diagnosis of cluttering features from other concomitant disorders

Time-Ordered Agenda
05 minutes – Introductions and disclosures
10 minutes – Definitions and examples
30 minutes – Deep Dive into Differential Diagnosis
15 minutes – Treatment Principles Based upon Diagnosis
15 minutes – Case examples
15 minutes – Moderated question and answer session