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This page was created for Michael Sugarman to make announcements of International Stuttering Day events around the world and other information related to ISAD.

ISAD Online Conference
From: Judy Kuster
Date: 9/4/98
Time: 11:26:54 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
ISAD Online Conference will open October 1 and will culminate on October 22.
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isad/isadannounce.html

Its a Stuttering Thing Workshop - Lake Zurich, IL
From: Judy Kuster
Date: 9/4/98
Time: 11:30:36 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Its a Stuttering Thing - September 26, 1998, Lake Zurich, Illinois - is a half-day workshop featuring E. Charles Healey (University of Nebraska) and Bill Murphy (Purdue University) - for kids who stutter, their parents, and speech-language pathologists. Contact Kristin Chmela (847-540-8685) or Nina Reardon (815-357-1871) for additional information. It is scheduled to be an early event as part of the ISAD celebration.

ISAD Posters
From: Judy Kuster
Date: 9/4/98
Time: 1:21:32 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Posters are available from Amy Johnson at Ahava1951@aol.com The members of Special Interest Division 4 (SID4) of ASHA received information about the ISAD conference in their newsletter along with an ISAD poster. 575 SLPs with special interest in stuttering received the poster. Every ISA consumer group has also received posters.

CAPS/NSP ISAD event - October 24 - St. Catharines, Ontario
From: Judy Kuster
Date: 9/4/98
Time: 1:49:34 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
CAPS and the NSP will host an event in connection with ISAD on Saturday, October 24, 1998 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Mary Wood of Dundas, Ontario, is among the organizers. The location is between Toronto and Buffalo. We look forward to meeting you at this event. More details will be announced at http://caps.webcon.net/isad98.html

Working Together: Families, Professionals and Friends
From: Lee Caggiano
Date: 9/8/98
Time: 8:59:14 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Join Us in Celebration of International Stuttering Awareness Day WORKING TOGETHER: FAMILIES, PROFESSIONALS AND FRIENDS Hofstra University Sept 26th Workshops for children, adults, families and clinicians Presenter and facilitators: John Ahlbach, Lee Caggiano, Carole Ferrand, Heather Grossman, Elizabeth Mendez, Phil Schneider, Jeff Shames, Dianne Slavin, Woody Starkweather, Meryl Wall, Karin Wexler, Ehud Yairi. For more info Contat Lee Caggiano LCaggiano@AOL.COM (516)499-7504

Belgium Self Help group ISAD activities
From: Gert Reunes
Date: 9/9/98
Time: 8:57:40 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The Belgium Self Help group at the University of Ghent is going full ahead to 22nd October. In the afternoon we have a congress with 5 schools (students' speech therapists) and also for professionals, and in the evening for parents of children who stutter and for students with pedagogical backgrounds. Between the two congresses we have planned a evening dinner for the professors and the staff of vzw BeSt in a nice restaurant. We are also printing 400 program books and will sell the 50 posters we have gotten. The university will help us attract media attention. 300 journalists will receive a press release of the 22nd ISAD day.

South-central MN NSP chapter to attend ISAD conference
From: Judy Kuster
Date: 9/11/98
Time: 8:47:32 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The South-Central Minnesota NSP chapter is arranging to have a computer lab available for their October chapter meeting so that members can attend the ISAD conference. Several of the members have never seen the Internet, so this will be an exciting evening!

Posters reach around the world!
From: Amy Johnson
Date: 9/12/98
Time: 1:08:07 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The ISAD posters have been sent to several individuals who have requested them as well the following support organizations around the world:

Argentina - Argentina Stuttering Association, Australia - Australian Speak Easy Association, Inc., Austria - Osterrelchische
Selbsthifeinitiative fur Stottern, Belgium - Belangengroep Stotteraars VZW BeSt,. Canada - Canadian Association for People Who Stutter and Speak Easy, Inc., Denmark - The Association for Stutterers in Denmark, Estonia - The Estonian Association of People who Stutter, Finland - The Association of Finnish Stutterers, France - Association Valncre le Begalement, Germany - Bundesvereinigung Stotterer-Selbsthilfe e.V., Hungary -Demoszthenesz, Iceland - Malbjorg-The Icelandic Stuttering Organization, Japan All-Japan Genyukai Association and Japan Stuttering Project, The Netherlands - Nederlandse Stottervereniging Demosthenes, New Zealand - New Zealand Speak Easy Association, Inc., Norway - Norwegian Stammering Association, Poland - Polish Association of People Who Stutter, South Africa - Speakeasy Stuttering Association-South Africa, Sweden - Swedish Stammerers Association, Switzerland - VERSTA - Vereinigung fur Stotternde und Angehorige, United Kingdom - British Stammering Association, USA Friends: The Association of Young People Who Stutter and the National Stuttering Project, International: The Speak Easy International Foundation, Inc. and ELSA

Cincinnati NSP workshop - October 24
From: Tom Scharstein
Date: 9/13/98
Time: 3:14:04 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The Cincinnati NSP chapter will host a fall workshop to coincide with International Stuttering Awareness Day. Russ Hicks, a recently retired computer analyst and an award-winning member of Toastmasters will be featured. The workshop will be held October 24th at Mercy South Hospital in Fursst Park, Ohio. For more information, contact Tom Scharstein at StineTom@aol.com

ISAD in the press
From: Michael Sugarman
Date: 9/17/98
Time: 6:22:59 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Information on International Stuttering Awareness Day activities appeared in ADVANCE on September 14, 1998, and also in the SID4 newsletter August 1998 Vo. 8, number 3, International Stuttering Association Spring 1998 and the NSP's Letting Go for July/August 1998.

Conference in Israel to be held on ISAD
From: Benny Ravid
Date: 9/18/98
Time: 7:43:23 AM
Remote Name: 204.73.75.250
Comments
On October 22, in celebration of International Stuttering Awareness Day, AMBI, the Israeli Stuttering Association will hold its first conference in Beit Leni, 37 King George St. Tel Aviv. For more information, contact Benny Ravid at bravid@bezeq.nmt.co.il

ISAD announced in New Zealand
From: Michael Sugarman
Date: 9/24/98
Time: 11:23:05 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The New Zealand Speak Easy Association newsletter "Air Flow," Spring 1998 vol.10 . number 4 had a lead article "Oct. 22 is World Day for Stuttering Awareness"

ISAD IN SOUTH AFRICA
From: MIKE NORRIS- SPEAKEASY
Date: 9/25/98
Time: 6:15:51 AM
Remote Name: 196.34.169.195
Comments
The following is planned for ISAD:
1. Dispatch posters to Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed Companies with a covering page.
2. Talks at high schools
3. National television and radio coverage
4. Posters to be displayed in major state hospitals and clinics with information letter.
Good luck to all other regions.

Improvisation "Play" Shop
From: Amy Johnson
Date: 9/25/98
Time: 8:50:15 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.205.71
Comments
In Celebration of International Stuttering Awareness Day, the Cleveland Chapters of the National Stuttering Project are presenting an Improvisational Workshop on October 3, 1998.

Poster sent around the world Update
From: Amy Johnson
Date: 9/25/98
Time: 9:45:04 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.194.189
Comments
Countries which have received posters now include Israel, Italy and Ireland

ISAD DEMONSTRATION - October 22 - 12:00 Noon
From: Amy Johnson
Date: 9/25/98
Time: 9:48:09 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.194.189
Comments
ISAD World Demonstration
AT 12:00 NOON ON OCTOBER 22 turn to the person next to you and tell that person that you stutter, like millions of others, and that you are proud to communicate. Do this at work, on the street, at play.
Children -- do this in class or at recess. If you are a SLP or parent or sister or brother, talk to someone about stuttering. Then . . . let us hear from you. If you participate in this world demonstration, please write about your experience and e-mail it to me at ahava1951@aol.com or Michael Sugarman at msugarman1@aol.com
Together we can make a difference for people who stutter all over the world.

ISAD proclamation - Everett, WA
From: Dave Halvorsen
Date: 9/30/98
Time: 8:40:31 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
To do my part for International Stuttering Awareness Day on Oct.22, I am taking the sample proclamation (which I retyped and printed ready for mayor's signature) so he can officially recognize International Stuttering Awareness Day here in my hometown of Everett, Wa. I printed some facts and articles from the NSP and SFA websites to support my presentation. Also, to add validity I will present comments on my own stuttering history and how it led me to Stutt-L and NSP.

SUNY-HSC
From: Susan Finkenstadt
Date: 10/3/98
Time: 2:42:34 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
I am coordinator of speech path at the University Hospital in Syracuse and I have arranged an interview with the journalist for the Healthcast progam at a tv station WSYR-9. A former adult client and I will be interviewed. In addition, my speech dept will have an exhibit outside of the SUNY-HSC cafeteria on ISAD. The exhibit will feature SFA videos and brochures and posters, as well as a stand up exhibit which provides some statistics on stuttering and debunks some of the myths about stuttering. We hope to educate hospital employees as professionals and parents about how to interact with a person who stutters and what they can do as parents.

Belgium ISAD DAY
From: Petra Velghe
Date: 10/6/98
Time: 1:41:08 PM
Remote Name: 195.238.9.39
Comments
Publicity on television and radio is done! Also on teletext (textprogram you can see on your TV ) we had publicitiy for the ISAD day. Radio I (national radio) will give an interview with a famous TV program maker (Luckas Vander Taelen). Also Professor Dr. Van BORSEL of the University of Ghent will have an intervieuw with a Doctors news paper. This paper goes to all the doctors of Belgium. Furhter more we will have a mailing of 1000 adresses to old students (speech therapists).

We have printed a booklet of 40 pages about what we do on the 22nd and will distributed towards our visitors of the ISAD day.

Thanks to all and do not forget 22 nd october auditorium D polikliniek between P3 and P4 ISAD day starts at 2 pm at the University of Ghent Dinner with speakers at 6 Pm

Evening program at 7.30 pm!!!

At 10 Pm starts also a stuttering PARTY with all the students !!! :-)

Greetings to all our friends in Netherland, GREECE and the whole world.

Belgium ISAD DAY II
From: Gert Reunes
Date: 10/6/98
Time: 2:12:57 PM
Remote Name: 195.238.9.39
Comments
Hi,
I know, the 22nd isn't finished but I will give thanks to some people; First of all thanks to my parent to make it possible that I can study for speech therapist at age of 36!!! Yes I was and still I am a stutterer :-) Thanks that they give me the opportunity to work for this Belgium ISAD DAY.

Thanks to I.S.A. to start the initiative for this DAY. I hope we will make it on the 22 nd ;-) I will thank my staff and the members of our organisation who did a wonderful job!!! Thanks to Prof. Dr. Van Borsel for believing in our organisation and our self help groups! Also for his many hours after his daily job at the University of Ghent.

I am sure that such a day will be the start of a new viewpoint of our problem! And that we in Belgium will work much more together (selfhelp groups and speech therapists).

Thanks also to Martine De Vloed who works a lot in the office of vzw BeSt and always giving 100% of her strength.

And 10000000 x thanks to my girlfriend who is waiting for me when I have finished organizing this ISAD BELGIUM DAY. You are my one and only !

Gert Reunes chairman of vzw BeSt

Berkshire Stuttering Center workshop - Oct 17
From: Audrey
Date: 10/10/98
Time: 10:37:23 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
In recognition of International Stuttering Awareness Day the Berkshire Stuttering Center will be holding a free workshop on Saturday, October 17th from 1-4 P.M. at Lee High School. The workshop is open to children who stutter, their parents and the speech pathologists who work with them.

The purpose of the workshop is to create an environment of support and understanding by offering children and parents the opportunity to meet with other stutterers and their families.

Please call 413-637-0111 to reserve your place or contact Audrey at Audleyfla@aol.com

ISAD in Argentina
From: Beatriz Touzet
Date: 10/16/98
Time: 10:52:23 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Our activities in Argentina on the ISAD are:
1- We translate your Proclamation and we made 2000 paper to offer to: - Schools - On the street - Church - Hospital and clinicals - Shops - University

2- We made two ISAD poster: one for children and other for adults

3- We are organizing a October 22 Convention at the Buenos Aires University, to celebrate also the place of Argentina Stuttering Association there 4- STICKERS: "If you stutter you are not alone" 5- One publication in the Asociacion Argentina de Foniatria Audiologia y Logopedia 6- We have invited to our meeting at the University: speech-pathologist, students, graduated, people who stutter, teachers and the Self Help Group 7- We inform and invited people from the Health Commette.of our Parliament 8- In the Argentina Stuttering Association Buletin we have sent information about October 22 9- We sent posters to radio and TV programs 10- People who stutter have been worked in the Argentina Isad posters

Our schedule for this day :

- Presentation of the A.A.T. and the objetives
- The ISAD celebration
- A workshop with masks People who stutter parents
- A workshop in communication specialist and speech
- A drama sketch all together pathologist and general people
- A video meeting: "Wine and empanadas"
MUSIC and DANCE

Thank you Michael for all your help.As you see in Argentina we begin to learn about October 22.It is so nice to make this celebration all together in this special day!

Beatriz

ISAD activities in Korea
From: Moonja Shin
Date: 10/16/98
Time: 10:57:18 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
My clinic are planning to host a meeting of stuttering people and professionals on 24, Oct. We made Korean posters and brochure for the stuttering awareness day. from Moonja Shin.

ISAD in Brazil
From: Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
Date: 10/16/98
Time: 2:22:13 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
In Brazil we are organizing a Seminar for SLP students, professionals and academic people. It won't be so big, but it is the first step.... The program, on October 22 will be:

"International Stuttering Awareness Day"

PROGRAM

19:30 - 20:15hs - Opening Session Welcome - Dra. Debora Maria B�fi Lopes - Chair of Sciences of Communication and Disorders Department - Medical School - Sao Paulo University.

International Stuttering Awareness Day e First International Online Conference on Stuttering - Dra. Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade - Fluency and Fluency Disorders Laboratory. Sciences of Communication and Disorders Department - Medical School - Sao Paulo University.

Brazilian Fluency Committe - Dra. Maria Isis Meira - President

20:15 - 21:15hs - Invited Session - STUTTERING: MULTIAREA POINT OF VIEW Pediatric - Dra. Luiza Arthemia Suman Mascaretti - Medical School - S�o Paulo University

Neurology - Dr. Luiz Celso Pereira Vilanova - Medical School - University Federal of S�o Paulo

Foniatric - Dr. Mauro Spinelli - Catholic University of Sao Paulo

Genetic - Dr. Antonio Richieri-Costa - Research and Rehabilitation Hospital of Clefts - S�o Paulo University.

Speech-Language - Dra. S�lvia Friedman - Catholic University of Sao Paulo.

21:15 - 21:45hs - Research Presentation and comment - TRAINING OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN STUTTERING Presentation - SLP Daniela Ver�nica Zackiewicz - Fluency and Fluency Disorders Laboratory. Sciences of Communication and Disorders Department - Medical School - Sao Paulo University.

Comment - Dr. Jaime Luiz Zorzi - Scientific Director of Brazilian Speech-Language-Hearing Society

21:45 - 22:00hs - Video Presentation - STUTTERERS PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW

22:00 - Closing Session - THE FUTURE

ISAD symposium schedule - St. Catharines
From: Jaan Pill
Date: 10/16/98
Time: 2:39:45 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) symposium in St. Catharines

A one-day symposium in celebration of the International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD), will be staged at the CAW TCA Hall at 124 Bunting Road, St. Catharines, Ontario from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, 1998.

This first-ever event has been organized by the Canadian Association for People Who Stutter (CAPS) and the California-based National Stuttering Project (NSP). The event will bring together people who stutter of all ages, their families, and speech professionals.

October 22 has been designated as International Stuttering Awareness Day by three international associations working on behalf of people who stutter. Saturday, October 24, 1998 has been chosen as the date for the St. Catharines event. The International Stuttering Association (ISA), the International Fluency Association (IFA), and the European League of Stuttering Associations (ELSA) are collaborating in staging such ISAD events worldwide.

ISA is an international network of 35 national self-help associations for people who stutter. The most recent ISA World Congress was in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1998. IFA is an international network of speech professionals, researchers, and self-help groups. The most recent IFA World Congress was in San Francisco in 1997. ELSA, a network of 15 European self-help associations, recently held a seminar in Dublin on schoolchildren who stutter.

Facilitators at the St. Catharines event include Tony Churchill, MCST, a speech-language pathologist in the school system in the Region of Peel. He works with school children and adults (the latter in private practice) who stutter. Tony Churchill is also a keynote speaker at the next national CAPS conference, ABC / CAPS 99, in Montreal in 1999. The Association des B�gues du Canada (ABC) is co-hosting the latter conference.

Second facilitator is Gary Rentschler, PhD, director of a speech, language and hearing clinic at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Third facilitator is Luc DeNil, PhD, associate professor in speech-language pathology at the University of Toronto. His positron emission tomography (PET) research on brain mechanisms has provided strong evidence of a neurological basis for stuttering.

ISAD - Ottawa, Canada
From: Ann Meltzer
Date: 10/20/98
Time: 11:27:17 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
The Stuttering Treatement Clinic in Ottawa is having an open house Oct 22. For further information contact Ann Meltzer
AMeltzer@ROHCG.ON.CA

Pittsburgh - treatment planning roundtable
From: J. Scott Yaruss
Date: 10/20/98
Time: 6:08:49 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
A treatment planning roundtable is planned at the Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania in honor of the ISAD. It's a free workshop for speech-language pathologists in the Pittsburgh area, designed to give clinicians an opportunity to ask questions and get new ideas about how best help their clients who stutter.

Presentation for my son's school
From: Molly Tami
Date: 10/20/98
Time: 6:13:19 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
To honor ISAD, I will be doing a presentation at my son's school, explaining why people stutter to 2-5 grade students.

Carolina Ayala of CAPS in CITY-TV ISAD interview
From: Jaan Pill
Date: 10/21/98
Time: 8:02:37 PM
Remote Name: 207.34.213.185
Comments
Carolina Ayala of Toronto appeared on CITY-TV, a major Toronto-area TV startion, as a spokesperson for CAPS (Canadian Association for People who Stutter) and SAT (Stuttering Association of Toronto) at a breakfast interview on the morning of Wednesday, October 21, 1998.

The Breakfast TV show devoted a significant amount of time to the ISAD interview. Carolina performed superbly well. She spoke really well and from the heart. She came across as relaxed, knowledgeable, warm, and poised. The interviewer, Ann Rohmer, also did a great job. It was a first-rate interview -- a source of pride and inspiration for every person who is involved at any level in the self-help movement on behalf of persons who stutter.

Now a university student, Carolina was also featured in Speaking of Courage, the award-winning video about children who stutter, produced by Condor Productions in Toronto. In recent years, Carolina Ayala of Toronto and Shamez Kassam of Calgary have organized workshops specifically for young people who stutter at for CAPS conference in Toronto in 1995 and Vancouver in 1997.

We very much look forward to her leadership, and leadership of other young people who stutter, in organizing workshops and events for young people at ABC / CAPS 99, the Fifth Canadian Conference for People Who Stutter, in Montreal on August 19-21,1999. The Association des B�gues du Canada (ABC) is co-hosting the latter conference. A call for Proposals is posted on the CAPS Web site at and a Canada Post version will be mailed out soon. We look forward to a wide range of interesting and valuable proposals.

Second facilitator is Gary Rentschler, PhD, director of a speech, language and hearing clinic at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Third facilitator is Luc De Nil, PhD, associate professor in speech-language pathology at the University of Toronto. His positron emission tomography (PET) scan research on brain mechanisms has provided strong evidence of a neurological basis for stuttering.

The CITY-TV interview will give extra publicity for the ISAD event in St.Catharines on Oct. 24. The toll-free number for CAPS was screened during the interview, along with the address of the St. Catharines ISAD. That address is the CAW TCA Hall at 124 Bunting Road. The event is from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm on Saturday, October 24.

All the best,
Jaan Pill,
Coordinator, Canadian Association for People Who Stutter
Chair, Outreach Working Group, International Stuttering Association

Ottawa ISAD event details
From: Jaan Pill
Date: 10/21/98
Time: 8:08:30 PM
Remote Name: 207.34.213.185
Comments
Here are more details about Ottawa ISAD event on Oct. 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day is being celebrated in the Ottawa area by having a joint open house / information session at the University of Ottawa on Thursday, October 22, 1998 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Lamoureux Hall on the University of Ottawa campus.

This is a cooperative effort between the Audiology and Speech Language Program at University of Ottawa and the Stuttering Treatment Clinic at the Rehabilitation Centre, and will feature brief talks by clinicians, parents of children who stutter, and adults who stutter.

Representatives from CAPS, and from both English and French self-help groups, will be present to answer any questions or provide information.

Entitled The Many Faces of Stuttering, this ISAD event will endeavour to bring together those who stutter, families of those who stutter, clinicians, researchers, and the public who wish to learn and understand more about stuttering. For further information, contact Norm McEwen at 613-226-7001 or <norm_mcewen@hc-sc.gc.ca>, or Ann Meltzer at AMeltzer@ROHCG.ON.CA.

ISAD
From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/22/98
Time: 12:22:49 PM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.50
Comments
Just a quick note to express my thanks and appreciation to Judy Kuster and Michael Sugarman -- and all the others -- who have contributed to make ISAD the success it has been.

I have been greatly impressed by this venture. Congratulations to all who have been a part of his historic event.

Steve Hood

Article re. ISAD conference
From: Steven Dwyer
Date: 4/18/00
Time: 10:57:27 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Comments
Communication disorder conference encourages those who stutter to seek web help, an article about ISAD 1998 by Steven Dwyer posted at http://www.mnsu.edu/depts/reporter/reparchive/11_19_98/news6.html</norm_mcewen@hc-sc.gc.ca>