After several years of work and research, Dr. Antonio Bitetti, as an associate member PhD, was invited by his American colleagues from the American Psychological Association (APA), to the annual convention, which this year took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 3 to 6 August 2022.

It was a long-awaited and important event, which allowed the aspects of stuttering therapy, in adults and children, contained in the therapeutic model, called: Stuttering Integrated Approach, to be exported to America. He was the only European psychologist present at the event and this makes the work carried out in Italy even more important.

An introductory part regarding the interpretation of the problem of stuttering, with comparisons regarding the genetic hypothesis of the problem and/or the relational hypothesis and a descriptive part regarding the actual operational intervention.

Dr. Bitetti focused his speech on the relational aspects, since all his research in this sector has always gone in this direction. He emphasized the fundamental element of the control factor, that on the mouth of the stutterer, a real bulwark to be faced, but above all on the tendency of the stutterer to control his emotions, imbued with anger.

Finally, much attention and consideration has been aroused by the intervention that Dr. Bitetti carries out in the treatment of preschool children, in the so-called phase of primary or developmental stuttering, 3 and 4-5 years. A true pioneer in Italy and abroad, in a field in which no one had ever ventured before.

An exceptional result, for a cutting-edge treatment, in Italy and abroad.