About us

The Center was founded in the early 1980’s by the late clinician and researcher Joseph Germono, PhD. Germono earned his master of science at University of Wisconsin and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He joined Boston University in 1977 as Director of Clinical Education. He was loved for his warmth, sensitivity, and sense of humor, as well as his intelligence and expertise in the assessment and treatment of stuttering.

Center Director

Caroline Brinkert, MS, CCC-SLP, serves as the Center for Stuttering Therapy director. A lecturer in Boston University’s Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, she has extensive experience conducting comprehensive assessments for a range of language-based learning difficulties, including higher-level language tasks such as reading and writing. Areas of treatment expertise include expressive/receptive language disorders, articulation and phonological disorders, executive functioning, and stuttering. She received her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Boston University, after graduating from Tufts University with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Child Development. She holds a Clinical Certificate of Competence in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, as well as professional licenses for both Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Advisory Board

Seymour Small, Leah Hoover, Isaac DaRowe, and Daniel Shapiro serve on the Advisory Board. As clients, they have been instrumental in generating ideas for new and better ways to meet client and student needs.

Researcher

Professor Frank Guenther, Ph.D. in BU’s Departments of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University investigates the neural bases of speech in neurologically normal and disordered populations. Learn more about his research here.