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Read more: March 2023 Message from Kurt Eggers IFA President
In the recent election Hope Gerlach-Houck was selected by the membership to serve as Treasurer-Elect.
Thanks to everyone who participated!
The Oxford Dysfluency Conference, under the theme ‘Back to the Future’, will be held in-person at St Catherine’s College Oxford from 19-22 September, 2023. The conference is one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023
Read more: 13th Oxford Dysfluency Conference: Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023
Marie-Christine Franken, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Some 40 years ago, the notion arose that the success of stuttering therapy in its advanced stages (be it important for the individuals concerned) was limited on public health scale. One began to explore early intervention methods to eliminate stuttering at the time it begins. That desire was not without controversy. Apart from - mainly medical - thoughts that early therapy was not required (‘it will naturally disappear’), the notion that directing attention to stuttering was the cause of the problem dominated the professional thinking, esp. in the north-western part of the world.
For more information about green-open access, we suggest explore this link to a very helpful webpage, https://www.csdisseminate.com/, created by speech, hearing, and language scientists which describes the details and steps of self-archiving your research.
Read more: IFA Advocacy Committee encourages researchers to use green-open access
Some papers from the 2018 Joint World Congress in Hiroshima, Japan are now available, just use the menu to go to
IFA Congresses -> IFA Congress Proceedings -> 2018 Joint World Congress: Hiroshima Japan
Current IFA Members can view the entire text of the papers, the public can view the abstracts.
More papers will be published as the review process is completed.