13th Oxford Dysfluency Conference: Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023

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

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Early intervention for stuttering: the evidence

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.

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IFA Advocacy Committee encourages researchers to use green-open access

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.

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