Rosalee C. Shenker

Rosalee C. Shenker has specialized in stuttering for over 40 years, choosing during the past 30 years to focus on treatment of children. She is founder of the Montreal Fluency Centre, a non-profit clinic specialising in treatment of children with speech, language, and literacy concerns, as well as stuttering. An expert in her field, she has taught at McGill University for 20 years, and is a founding member of the Lidcombe Program Training Consortium. She has provided invited presentations, workshops and mentoring to over 3000 clinicians in Canada, USA, France, Italy, Croatia, Argentina and Israel.

Rosalee has published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters on stuttering to various textbooks. Her most recent work involves the treatment of bilingual children who stutter. Rosalee is the proud grandmother of four adorable children.

Gissella Santayana

Gissella is a passionate speech-language pathologist who works in English, French and Spanish. After completing a Bachelors’ degree in molecular biology (with a minor in Russian, because she has always loved language!), she pivoted her career towards Speech-Language Pathology. She has now accrued over 15 years experience in the treatment of stuttering. Gissella’s approach is rooted in several different methodologies - she works from the Lidcombe and Camperdown program programs, solution-focused brief therapy, and is additionally trained in Level 1 CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). In addition to her clinical practice, Gissella provides continuing education for speech-language professionals through Lidcombe Program workshops and has co-authored articles pertaining to stuttering assessment and treatment.

Samar Karam

Trilingual speech-language pathologist with nearly 12 years of experience in fluency working

with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as in language disorders and in Augmentative

and Alternative Communication. She is also trained in parental guidance with children and

adolescents. She has created and provided workshops for parents, teachers and professionals

aiming to raise awareness and knowledge in the field of fluency.