Rate My Professor J Scott Yaruss

Yaruss directs the Spartan Stuttering Laboratory at MSU, focusing his research on fluency disorders such as stuttering and cluttering, particularly the lived experiences of individuals who stutter, variability across situations, and broader life impacts. His funded projects include a 2020 NIH/NIDCD R01 grant studying stuttering variability and an NSF grant developing the HeardAI app prototype for recognizing stuttered speech. With over 135 peer-reviewed publications, key works include co-developing the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES; Yaruss & Quesal, 2006, 2016), School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide, Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide, and Minimizing Bullying for Children Who Stutter (Stuttering Therapy Resources). Recent articles feature Tichenor et al. (2022) on understanding the speaker’s experience of stuttering, Assaneo et al. (2022) on auditory-motor integration and stuttering severity, and Tichenor & Yaruss (2024) validating a research version of OASES-A. Yaruss’s contributions have earned the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Honors of the Association (its highest award), Michigan State University’s William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award (2024), National Stuttering Association’s Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year and Hall of Fame awards, University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and the International Fluency Association’s 2022 Award for Improving the Lives of People Who Stutter (with Robert W. Quesal). He has held roles on the National Stuttering Association Board of Directors and ASHA’s Special Interest Group for Fluency Disorders, and presented hundreds of workshops, seminars, and lectures at local, national, and international conferences.