Project Type: Visegrad Grants, Visegrad+ Grants, and Strategic Grants

Grant Agreement Number: 22610153

Grantor: International Visegrad Fund

Implementation Period: 10.09.2026 – 31.12.2027

The project brings together institutions from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Ukraine to promote modern, evidence-based  and inclusive approaches to supporting people who stutter.

Project objective: to disseminate modern, evidence-based and inclusive approaches to supporting people who stutter based on the CARE™ Model, developed by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research at the University of Texas at Austin (USA). The model encompasses four interconnected areas: Communication, Advocacy, Resiliency and Education.

Grinchenko University's key responsibilities within the project framework involve:

• organizing three interactive webinars (for educators and educational staff; for speech-language pathologists and students; for people who stutter and their families);
• conducting an information campaign to raise awareness about stuttering, overcome stereotypes and promote inclusive communication principles;
• participating in the creation and adaptation of informational materials, gathering personal stories of people who stutter and disseminating project results;
• populating and updating the Ukrainian-language section of the joint project website;
• preparing the national section of a joint electronic publication on the implementation of the CARE™ Model in both Ukrainian and English;
• presenting the Ukrainian experience at the V4 & Ukraine CARE™ International Hybrid Symposium at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Project deliverables: Educational events for specialists, students, people who stutter, and their families, as well as the creation and adaptation of materials on applying the CARE™ Model. Recordings of webinars, instructional videos, manuals and methodological resources will be publicly available on the joint website. Ukrainian experience will be featured in the national section of the joint electronic publication in Ukrainian and English. Project outcomes will be presented at the V4 & Ukraine CARE™ International Hybrid Symposium.

Partner institutions:

• Logopedic Center Foundation (Fundacja Centrum Logopedyczne) and the University of Silesia in Katowice — Poland;
• Private Counseling and Prevention Center "Institute for Child Speech" (Súkromné centrum poradenstva a prevencie Inštitút detskej reči) — Slovakia;
• Eötvös Loránd University — Hungary;
• Masaryk University (Masarykova Univerzita) — Czech Republic;
• Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University — Ukraine.

University project working group:

• Nataliia Babych, PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Coordinator;
• Nataliia Klishevych, PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Special Education — Project Co-coordinator;
• Roman Pavliuk, PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean — Project Co-coordinator;
• Iryna Muzychenko, PhD in Psychology, Deputy Dean — Project Team Member;
• Nataliia Lopatynska, PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member;
• Kateryna Tychyna, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member;
• Tetiana Khomyk, PhD in Education, Associate Professor at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member;
• Olha Nevmerzhytska, Lecturer at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member;
• Hanna Suprun, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member;
• Maryna Ovcharenko, Lecturer at the Department of Speech Therapy — Project Team Member.

Project Website: https://fcl.org.pl/isad2027visegradfound/