Professor and Director, Graduate Studies
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Vanderbilt University
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Edward G. Conture, Professor and Director, Graduate Studies, Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, is the author of over 115 journal articles, books, book chapters, monographs and commercial-grade videos dealing with stuttering, especially in early childhood. Former Editor (2004-2007), Journal of Fluency Disorders (Official Journal of the International Fluency Association), Conture’s Allyn & Bacon book (Stuttering: Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment) is in its 3rd Edition as well as another book in its 3rd Edition (Conture, E. & Curlee, R. (2007), Stuttering and Related Disorders of Fluency, Thieme Medical).
In the late 1960’s, early 1970's, Conture received his bachelor's degree from Emerson College, Master's from Northwestern University and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. An ASHA Fellow, Member of NIH’s National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council (2004-2008) and recipient of several awards for his clinical/scholarly contributions (e.g., 2003 Malcolm Fraser Award; 2005 Frank R. Kleffner Award for Lifetime Clinical Achievement; 2007 Honors, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), Conture was Margaret O. Slocum Professor of Education (1993-1997), Syracuse University and Visiting Researcher (1994-95), University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Conture has presented over 250 scholarly papers/poster presentations, short courses, mini-seminars, and workshops to professional and scholarly conferences throughout Australia, North America and Europe and continues to pursue a federally-funded program studying the syntactic, semantic, and phonologic abilities and behaviors of children who stutter as well as their emotional reactivity/regulation.
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