The Illinois International Stuttering Research Program

CURRICULUM VITAE (June, 2007)

Rosalee C. Shenker, Ph.D. S-LP C

• Address
• The Montreal Fluency Centre and
  McGill University
• 4626 Ste. Catherine Street West
• Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1S3
• Canada
• Office: 514-489-4320
• Home: 514-483-2956
• Fax: 514-489-9249
• Mobile: 514-880-8255
• rosalee.shenker@mcgill.ca

Professional Qualifications

• Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1978
• M.Sc. California State University, Long Beach
• Communication Disorders, 1965
• B.Sc. Syracuse University
• Speech Pathology and Audiology, 1964

Present Employment

Executive Director, The Montreal Fluency Centre; Adjunct Professor, McGill University School of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Founding Member Lidcombe Program Training Consortium and Coordinator of Professional Education for the LPTC in North America

Role at the Centre:  Administration of large non-profit clinic with a staff of 14 professionals and 3 administrative personnel, director of clinical research, supervise and mentor graduate students, provide continuing professional education

Academic Affiliation

Professor-Adjunct School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Publications

Koushik, S., Shenker, R.C., Onslow, M., Adaman, B. (submitted).  Follow up of school age children after
lidcombe program treatment.

Shenker, R.C., Bruce, M., Harrison, E., & Koushik, S.  (Under contract).  Treatment of School age children. With the Lidcombe Program.  In Guitar, B. & McCauley, R. J. (Eds.) Treatment of Stuttering: Conventional and Controversal interventions.  Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins.

Harrison, E., Shenker, R. & Kingston, M. (under contract).   Case studies in evidence based management of stuttering preschoolers.  In Mark Onslow (Ed.,) Evidence-based clinical management of Stuttering. Austin, TX: Pro-ed.

Roberts, P. & R.C. Shenker (in press).  Bilingualism: Issues affecting stuttering.  In Conture, E.G. &Curlee,   R. Nature and Treatment of Stuttering (3rd edition).

Shenker, R.C. & Roberts, P. (2006) Long term outcome of the Lidcombe Program in bilingual Children, Proceedings of the International Fluency Association 5th World Congress, Dublin.

Shenker, R.C. (2006).  Connecting stuttering measurement and management: 1.  Core speech measures of Clinical process and outcome.  International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 41(4) pp 355-364.

Latterman, T., Shenker, R.C. & Thordardottir, E. (2005) Progression of language complexity with the lidcombe program for early stuttering intervention. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.

Shenker, R.C. (2004).  Bilingualism in early stuttering: Clinical implications. In A.K. Bothe (Ed.) Evidence-based treatment of stuttering: Empirical issues and clinical implications. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Shenker, R.C., & Wilding, J. (2003).  The Lidcombe Program in Canada.  In Onslow, M., Packman, A. & Harrison, E. (eds.), The Lidcombe Program in Clinical Practice: A clinician’s guide.  Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Shenker, R.C. 2003.  Treatment of Early Stuttering.  Fréquences. 15, (2) 11-15. 

Shenker, R.C. (2002).  Stuttering and the bilingual child.  Brochure for Stuttering Foundation of America.

Shenker, R.C. (1999) Treating the young stutterer: service delivery models.  Canadian Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.  22, 232-243.

Shenker, R.C., & Dickenson, L. (1997).  The relationship between speech naturalness and prosodic Variables in treated stutterers.  Proceedings of the Second World Fluency Congress.San Francisco.

Shenker, R.C., Courcy, A., Conte, A., Gingras, A., & Polomeno, L. (1997). The development of fluency in a bilingual preschool aged child.  Proceedings.  The Second World Fluency Congress. San Francisco. Nijmegen University Press.  200-204.

Mayberry, R. I. & Shenker, R.C. (1997).  Gesture mirrors speech motor control in stutterers.  In W. Hulstijn, H. Peters & P. Van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech Motor Production and Fluency Disorders (pp 183-190). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Shenker, R.C., Mayberry, R. I., Scoble, J., Grothe, M. & White, K. (1995).  The gesture-speech relationship In stuttering: Preliminary findings and application to treatment.  Proceedings of the First World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Munich, Germany.

Shenker, R.C., & Finn, P. (1985) An evaluation of the effects of fluency training during maintenance. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 10 (4), 257-76.

Shenker, R.C., Seitz, M., & Doehring, D.  Stuttering behavior and cerebral asymmetry.  In M. Seitz, B. Weber, J. Jacobson & R. Morehouse.  The use of averaged electroencephalic response Techniques in the study of auditory processing related to speech and language.  Brain and Language, 11, 261-284.