Would you like to earn a $75 Coles Myer gift card for participating in a research study from the comfort of your own home?

This study will be running until 2015. Speech pathologists will be offered a $20 Coles Myer gift card for confirming the presence of stuttering for each participating child.

Do you have a child who stutters (7-11 years)?

If you are interested in participating in this study, you and your child will be asked to complete some questionnaires and a psychological assessment using a home computer with internet access. These questionnaires and the assessment will take between 60-90 minutes to complete (approximately 20-30 minutes for your child, and 40-60 minutes for you). You will have 4 weeks to complete the online questionnaires and assessments.

For more information, please contact Dr Lisa Iverach from the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University (lisa.iverach@mq.edu.au). All enquiries are confidential.

This study has been approved by the Macquarie University Human Research Ethics Committee and is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

$20 Coles Myer Gift Card for Speech Pathologists

Dr Lisa Iverach
Macquarie University

Information for Speech Pathologists

We are currently conducting a study investigating the “Social and Emotional Experiences of School-Age Children Who Stutter”. This study will assist us in better understanding the psychological impact of stuttering in childhood, and will contribute to the development of more effective treatments for children who stutter in the future.

Children/parents participating in this research will complete some questionnaires and an assessment using a home computer with internet access. Each parent/child pair will receive a $75 gift voucher upon completion of these questionnaires and the assessment.

It is a requirement of entry into this study that each child who stutters has their stuttering confirmed by a speech pathologist. This step is very quick and easy to complete. It typically involves the child and parent giving consent for the researchers to contact the child’s speech pathologist to request written confirmation of stuttering. This written confirmation can be sent via email to Dr Lisa Iverach from the Centre of Emotional Health at Macquarie University (only confirmation of stuttering is required; no assessment, report, severity ratings, or personal details are necessary).

In order to compensate speech pathologists for the time required to provide confirmation of stuttering, each speech pathologist will receive a $20 Coles Myer gift voucher each time they provide confirmation of stuttering for a child participating in our research. However, if confirmation of stuttering is not possible, we will conduct a speech assessment with the child and parent over the phone/internet.

If you have any further questions, or you would like some flyers sent to your clinic, please contact Dr Lisa Iverach from the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University (lisa.iverach@mq.edu.au).

This study has been approved by the Macquarie University Human Research Ethics Committee and is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.