We are excited to announce two significant events in Poland to raise awareness and support individuals who stutter and clutter. The first event will be hosted at the REPTY Upper Silesian Rehabilitation Center on October 18th, 2024, followed by a seminar at the University … Continue reading →
International Stuttering Awareness Day event in Japan Building on the success of last year’s joint activity, we are excited to announce that this year’s ISAD campaign in Japan will once again be a collaborative project of the self-help group, Japan … Continue reading →
A group of speech-language pathologists from Puerto Rico got together in the summer of 2023 to become a special interest group in the area of fluency disorders. At this time, the group is made up of 6 clinicians and two … Continue reading →
It seems like there is still a long way to go before stuttering is normalized, and not seen as something that needs to be fixed or eliminated. Even though there has been a lot of evidence based research that tells … Continue reading →
Why do you think that the belief still persists that stuttering is bad and must be fixed? It’s 2023 and society seems much more tolerant of differences. But this doesn’t seem to be the case with stuttering. It’s still laughed … Continue reading →
As the campaign of this year’s ISAD in Japan, we plan to distribute pocket tissues for stuttering awareness on October 21st and 22nd, during the 11th Meeting of Japan Society of Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders (JSSFD) held in Tsukuba, … Continue reading →
Here’s what we at STAMMA are up to over ISAD:- At STAMMA we’ve refined our mission to focus on ‘creating space for people who stammer’, and our message ‘it’s how we talk’. This work has led us to converge on … Continue reading →
I’m really interested in thoughts about how speech therapy for kids and teens has changed from, say, 20 years ago. It used to be pretty standard (in my opinion) to approach therapy for kids (guided by parent requests) towards the … Continue reading →
As a person who stutters myself, I went years being quiet and taking a backseat to things I really wanted to do in life. I am open now about my stuttering and sometimes look back at my stuttering career. I … Continue reading →
