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Charles M. Runyan

Professor and Interim Department Head

Office: HHS 1128
Phone: 540-568-6440
Email: runyancm@jmu.edu

Research and Teaching Areas:

  • Cleft Palate
  • Stuttering

Research Laboratory

Video-Analysis Lab

Current and Ongoing Research Projects:

  • Neuromotor basis of stuttering
  • The development of a treatment protocols for adults (PS) and children who stutter (CS)

Publications (last five years)

Runyan, C.M. and Runyan, S.E. (2009) The Fluency Rules Program, In Guitar,B. and McCauley, R.J. (Eds.) Treatment of Stuttering: Established and Emerging Interventions. Baltimore, MD. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Runyan, C.M., & Runyan, S.E. (2007). The Fluency Rules Program For School-Age Children Who Stutter , 3rd In Contour, E.& Curlee, R. F. (Eds.) Stuttering and related disorders of fluency (3rd ed.). New York: Theime Medical Publishers.

Tasko, S.M., McClean, M.D. and Runyan, C.M. (2007) Speech motor correlates of treatment-related changes in stuttering severity and speech Naturalness. Journal of Communication Disorders, 40,42-65.

Runyan, C.M. and Runyan, S.E. (In Press). Fluency Rules Program: For the Young Stutterer. In Contour, E. and Curlee, R. F. Theime Medical Publishers. (2005)

McClean, M.D., Tasko, S.M., and Runyan, C.M. (2004) Orofacial movements associated with fluent speech production in persons who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47, 294-303.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

Runyan,C.M and Gallop,R The SpeechEasy:A five year retrospective study. Invited paper SID 4 presented at American Speech Language and Hearing Association convention, Chicago (2008)

Runyan C.M. and Runyan, S.E. The SpeechEasy: A Three Year Follow-up Study.  Paper presented  at American Speech Language and Hearing Association, Miami (2006).

Runyan C.M., Runyan S.E., DeLuca, K.D., and Stiles, E.S.: Evaluation and Follow-up of the Speech-Easy device. Paper presented at American Speech Hearing and Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA (2004).

Tasko, McClean, S.M., and Runyan, C.M.: Speech motor changes coincident with stuttering treatment. Paper presented at the Twelfth Biennial Conference on Speech Motor Control, Albuquerque, NM (2004).