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Nominations Requested for IFA Treasurer-Elect by Oct 21

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The position of IFA Treasurer-Elect is currently vacant and the Membership committee is soliciting nominations for this position. The Treasurer-Elect serves on the IFA Executive Board and must be an IFA member who should be chosen from among U.S. members of the Association to facilitate financial reporting requirements of the Association’s non-profit status. Information about the position is below. Nominations will close on October 21^st with an election to follow in November. Self-nominations are welcome.

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In Memoriam Peggy Janssen

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On March 6th, 2022, after a long illness, Peggy Janssen passed away at the age of 88 yrs.

Peggy was trained as an experimental and social psychologist at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. She started her career as a researcher at the Department of Phoniatrics/ENT at the Academic Hospital Utrecht (later University Medical Centre Utrecht) in 1968 with a research project on the effectiveness and efficacy of stuttering therapy. This was the start of more than 30 years of experimental and clinical activities in communication disorders and, more specifically, the domain of stuttering. Her stuttering research was unique in several ways.

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IFA Advocacy Committee encourages researchers to use green-open access

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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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Updated! 2021 Election Results

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We are pleased to announce the results of the recent IFA election for Member at Large, along with President-Elect and Secretary.

Jean Sawyer was elected Member at Large

Courtney Byrd was elected President-Elect;

Elaine Kelman will continue to serve as Secretary.

In Memoriam Herman F.M. Peters, Ph.D.

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On June 24, after a brief but devastating illness, Herman Peters passed away. In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the International Fluency Association (IFA) and become the 3^rd IFA-president in 1993. He served this organization in various roles, including treasurer, and was honored for his contributions to IFA in 2000.

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