INTERNATIONAL STUTTERING ASSOCIATION ONE VOICE 32 !AUGUST 2012 One Voice Incorporating The Voice of ELSA, the newsletter of the European League of Stuttering Associations FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT 10th World congress for People who Stutter Lunteren, The Netherlands Monday 10 – Thursday 13 June 2013 Conference title: ‘Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Breaking taboos around stuttering’ Hosted by: The Netherlands Stuttering Association Demosthenes Location: Congresscentre ‘De Werelt’, Lunteren Hope to see you there... Michael Sugarman ! PAGE 1 INTERNATIONAL STUTTERING ASSOCIATION ONE VOICE 32 !AUGUST 2012 NEWS FROM ELSA (EUROPEAN LEAGUE OF STUTTERING ASSOCIATIONS) One of ELSA’s objectives is to bring together and the WC organizing committee and most of the members represent the interests of people who stutter in Europe. of the WC sub committees are former ELSA youth Over the last 12 months ELSA was represented at meeting delegates! the annual meeting of the European Disability Forum We are also planning for yet another European (the European umbrella organization for people with Youth Meeting. If funding is secured the meeting is disabilities) in May 2102 and contributed via the planned to take place in July 2013 or 2014. More presentation of information material at the biannual information will follow. European Symposium on Fluency Disorders in Antwerp Regards in March 2012. It is important for ELSA to network with other disability organizations, speech and language therapists and other professional bodies to ensure Anita S Blom & Edwin J Farr stuttering remains on the agenda and to encourage European League of Stuttering Associations, others to listen and understand the lives and needs of ELSA people who stutter. www.elsa.info ELSA continues to focus on the disability model and www.stuttering.ws the latest ELSA disability update document is to be found at: http://www.stuttering.ws/index.php/ documents/publications. We are proud to announce that there are two new member organizations: the new Belgian stuttering association BSV, and the Portuguese stuttering association. We are looking forward to meet and work together with our new colleagues. The Dutch and the German stuttering associations are working on a declaration on stuttering therapy and together with the ISA we hope to produce a worldwide statement, this is currently work in progress. We have now had 8 youth meetings since 1995 and it’s fantastic to follow the lives of past delegates of the youth meetings and see where they are today. Some of them are now board members, or even chair persons at their national stuttering associations. One of them is new an ambassador! And they use every opportunity to visit each other and meet up. The next occasion is the Nordic stuttering seminar, 31/8-2/9 in Hamar, Norway and we’re looking forward to see many of them again. The next big stuttering occasion is the world congress for people who stutter in Lunteren in the Netherlands, in June 2013. Here ELSA is planning to have a reunion with former ELSA youth meeting delegates. The WC will also be an ELSA mile stone, as ! PAGE 2 INTERNATIONAL STUTTERING ASSOCIATION ONE VOICE 32 !AUGUST 2012 MESSAGE FROM ISA I have recently reconnected I look forward to working OUTREACH... with past friends from South with more of you over the next Africa / Senegal to see how we can year until the 10th World advance stammering Awareness Congress for People Who Stutter Michael our Chair raised a and help in their countries and in Holland in 2013 (http:// wonderful question at the elsewhere. We need to talk about www.demosthenes.nl/wc2013) beginning of the year. What can Self Help Groups more. you do in 2012 to help PWS in your own Country and / or around Please pass this to all your the world? Some of the upcoming Have you looked at our members. events can be seen at http:// Facebook site? (http:// www.isastutter.org/. www.facebook.com/isastutter) Keith Boss Pay us a visit and tell us what ISA Chair of Outreach Have you been able to start you want. something new? If you are on Vice Chair and Treasurer either Board of the ISA, what will [email protected] you do in the remaining months of 2012 to keep the ISA committees As often, I will close my active and progressing for the contribution by reminding all of us good of all (http:// that the ISA exists to help People www.isastutter.org/initiatives/isa- Who Stutter in any Country of committee-structure-draft-2)? the World. For the ISA to succeed, If you are part of your National we need Association, what will you and -volunteers with time; your Association, do for ISAD in -volunteers to help with October 2012? If you are going to translation between other volunteer, what will you do to step languages; and outside your comfort zones? -money. -volunteers to stand for I recently attended the election on to the next Board of International Fluency Association Directors in 2013. (IFA) Congress in Tours. It was a (Do you need information about wonderful place to extend my what is expected?) knowledge, experience and If you can give the ISA some network to meet new friends of your valuable skills / time / whilst catching up with current money, please do so. However we friends. I have written in more are also seeking volunteers to help detail about this in an article to be in fund raising to send PWS to the found below. As well as meeting World Congress in 2013. If you can new friends from Russia and being help, or know of someone else invited to their Moscow clinic who can help please contact either 'Arlilia' in September, I made new Michael Sugarman contacts Turkey; Malta; Spain; <[email protected]> or Persian Department in Voice of Keith Boss America; Vietnam; Portugal; <[email protected]>. Sweden; Australia; Kuwait. ! PAGE 3 INTERNATIONAL STUTTERING ASSOCIATION ONE VOICE 32 !AUGUST 2012 By Adolfo Barrales. Speech Language Pathologist and Psychotherapist President of Chilean Stuttering Association: Grupo de Amigos de Personas con Tartamudez Chile. External Professor and Relator for the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile Special Friend of ISA. Member Representative of Chile to the International Cluttering Association.. FROM CHILE, SHARING OUR “Diplomado en Intervención around the world, in the association ACTIVITIES TO OUR GLOBAL Fonoaudiológica en Personas con which I chair (CSA, GAPTCHILE), COMMUNITY, Tartamudez”, for Speech-Language together with my collaborators, I am INTERNATIONAL Pathologists at San Sebastian working a full time in others multiple STUTTERING University, Santiago, Chile. The activities: Dear friends of our global interest of the school of my On July, 13, 2012, we had a community, International Stuttering participation has been to teach Meeting for PWS which are Family, for me is a great pleasure to Speech-Language Pathologists the membership to our CSA, GAP share with you the multiple activities Neofonoaudiológico Approach. CHILE. that I am doing, along with my I have great pride to have worked Realization of “Seminar- collaborators, in the association together with I. Reichel, D.A. Workshop in Stuttering. Chilean Stuttering Association Shapiro, B.B. Touzet, A.A. Barrales. I Neofonoaudiologico Training. (CSA), “Grupo de Amigos de was very pleased our contribution for Introductory Level”, August, 17, 2012. Personas con Tartamudez the 7th World Congress (http://seminariotartamudez.com/, Chile” (Group of Friend of People International Fluency Association http://gaptartamudez.com/). Who Stuttering). I am Chair of this (IFA) was accepted for a poster Especially for PWS, and open to Association. presentation: “Emotional young people in training as speech I am applying with great intelligence: Implications for and language therapists and also to happiness the approach I've been E%ectiveness in Stuttering young people of related fields. The developing for 25 years: Intervention”. And be contributing meeting is a place for both groups to Neofonoaudiológico Approach. This with article to the International meet and exchange ideas. The Approach applies the current Cluttering Association (ICA) activity was sponsored by the Career knowledge of the neurosciences to newsletter, July 2012 (http:// of Education in Special Education, contribute with innovations for associations.missouristate.edu/ICA/). University Academy of Christian helping people who su%er di&culties Several articles published in the Humanism. The article about the in their fluency, and sciences that Chilean newspaper "Guardian de la Seminar-Workshop was published in study the human language. The PWS Salud" ("Guardian of Health"). the Chilean newspaper "La Cuarta", are having good benefits, walking to Articles for supporting people who edition of July, 7. the meeting with the fluency, quickly stutter, sensitizing society to We are working to acknowledge and concretely. Also, the approach understand Stuttering and the life of the International Stuttering applies to self-help groups. The a PWS, and to contribute to a Awareness Day of GAPTCHILE, approach is in constant improvement society accepting the di%erences of October, 22. Thus, we again and monitoring, in collaboration them. accompany this celebration together with Dr. Roberto Gallardo, noted I was honored to be invited by with the activities of ISA and others neurophysiologist of the Faculty of the College of Speech Language Associations around the world. I am Medicine, University of Chile. And Therapists of Chile as speaker at very pleased that in the past year our this year I'm applying it in a thesis their XXIX Congress, October, 25, GAPTCHILE celebration of ISAD for final year students of the career 26, 27, 2012: "Introduction to met to about 100 people (in of Special Education, University Neofonoaudiológico Approach". dependencies of the University of Academy of Christian Humanism. Also, in my compromise of Santo Tomas, Santiago, with the Is a Great honor this year be part constantly contribute to PWS sponsorship of the School of Speech of teacher’s team to the first Therapy).