Vivian Sisskin

Vivian Sisskin is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, an ASHA Fellow, and Board-Certified Specialist in Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders. She received ASHA’s Media Champion Award for her work promoting public awareness of stuttering and the Stuttering Association of the Young (SAY) Budd Mayer Advocacy Award. She was named Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year by the National Stuttering Association. Sisskin is the creator of Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS®), which supports goals of acceptance and change. She directs the Sisskin Stuttering Center and presents her work both nationally and internationally.