by Dieudonne Nsabimana. Coordinator of the African Stuttering Centre
There are only 2 Speech-language Pathologists (SLPs) in Rwanda for a population of over 11 million people. Using the universally accepted incidence rates of stuttering (1 percent of the population), there are 110.000 people who stutter in Rwanda, resulting in an estimate of 1 SLP for 55.000 people who stutter. Clearly access to treatment for stuttering is not available to all who need it.
The application of telehealth technologies offers effective solutions to this challenge. Distance Stuttering Therapy Program Africa (DSTPA) has been developed in Rwanda to deal with this shortfall.
続きを読む: Lesson from Rwanda: Using Technology to Provide Access to Therapy
You can download a PDF of the latest issue of the International Cluttering Association's newsletter, Volume 7 issue 1 January 2017 by clicking here (https://www.theifa.org/pdf/ICA_newsletter_volume_7_issue_1.pdf)
Previous issues are available at the ICA website, where you can learn more about the ICA, http://associations.missouristate.edu/ICA/.
by Dieudonne Nsabimana. Coordinator of the African Stuttering Centre
The purpose of this article is to give you insight into the work we were doing to create positive change in our community . We have been translating education materials on stuttering into the local language with the support of the International Fluency Association (IFA).
11year-old Bruce is a kid who stutters who lives in a rural area of northern Rwanda, where stuttering is defined by folk myths.
続きを読む: A kid who stutters and his dream: "I want to become a police officer"
The Organising Team are pleased to announce the theme for the 2018 Inaugural Joint World Congress of the International Stuttering Association, International Fluency Association and International Cluttering Association to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, alongside local host organisation the Japanese Society of Stuttering and other Fluency Disorders.
続きを読む: テーマが「科学と吃音コミュニティ：ことばがつなぐ一つの世界」に決まりました！
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The IFA is pleased to highlight an example of collaborative development of national guidelines authored by both professionals and consumers to improve the quality of services for people who stutter:
from the ISA Website:
The ISA is very pleased to be able to offer the Clinical Guideline ‘Stuttering in Children, Adolescents and Adults’ (Pertijs et al. 2014) and allowing the usage of this English translation free of charge and obligation. The professional translation (and edited by Bert Bast, Leonoor Oonk and Mark Pertijs from The Netherlands) makes a significant contribution to the community of people who stutter around the world.
The Dutch Clinical Guideline on Stuttering was discussed extensively at the 8th World Congress of the International Fluency Association (IFA) at Lisbon July 2015.
read more at the ISA website here: http://www.isastutter.org/resources/clinical-guideline-stuttering
20-23 September 2017
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK
The 11th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), under the theme ‘Challenge and Change’, is to be held at St Catherine’s College Oxford from 20-23 September, 2017. ODC has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency.
続きを読む: 11th Oxford Dysfluency Conference: Challenge and Change
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