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ISAD in Poland 2024

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on October 1, 2024 by Pamela MertzOctober 1, 2024

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 →

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ISAD in Japan 2024

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on September 30, 2024 by Pamela MertzSeptember 22, 2024

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 →

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ISAD in Puerto Rico

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on October 10, 2023 by Pamela MertzOctober 31, 2023

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 →

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What will it take to shift mindsets from “stuttering should be fixed” to “stuttering is OK?”

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on October 1, 2023 by Pamela MertzOctober 1, 2023

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 →

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Perceptions – stuttering is bad, fluency is good

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on September 30, 2023 by Pamela MertzSeptember 30, 2023

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 →

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ISAD In Japan

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on September 29, 2023 by Pamela MertzOctober 31, 2023

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 →

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ISAD In the UK – STAMMA

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on September 29, 2023 by Pamela MertzOctober 31, 2023

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 →

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How has therapy changed for children?

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on October 5, 2022 by Pamela MertzOctober 5, 2022

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 →

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How do you measure success?

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on October 1, 2022 by Pamela MertzOctober 1, 2022

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 →

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Around the World – Poland

International Stuttering Awareness Day Posted on September 30, 2022 by Pamela MertzSeptember 30, 2022

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