Martine Vanryckeghem

Martine Vanryckeghem, PhD received her Master's Degree (1991) and PhD (1994) from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, after having worked for 12 years as a speech-language pathologist at a Clinical Center in Belgium. Dr. Vanryckeghem started her academic career at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 1994. She is clinically certified as a speech-language pathologist, is an ASHA Fellow, a Board Certified Specialist in Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders and European Fluency Specialist. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has given lectures and workshops, internationally, with respect to the assessment and treatment of children and adults who stutter. She is the co-author of the Behavior Assessment Battery (BAB) for Children and Adolescents who Stutter, the Behavior Assessment Battery (BAB) for Adults who Stutter, and the Communication Attitude Test for Preschoolers and Kindergartners who Stutter (KiddyCAT) which have been researched in 30+ countries.  For her international endeavors, Prof. Vanryckeghem received ASHA’s Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contribution in International Achievement and is a Fulbright recipient. From 1990 until 2000, she was managing editor of the Journal of Fluency Disorders and is an editorial board member for several professional journals. Dr. Vanryckeghem is on the Scientific Board of different internationally-based organizations and serves as a consultant to faculty and students. She has been a guest professor at the University of Gent, Belgium and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. She is a faculty member, coach and partner of the post-graduate European Stuttering Specialization (ESS) course. In August 2025, Dr. Vanryckeghem became Pegasus Professor Emerita at UCF.