National Stuttering Association

40°33′34″N 74°10′05″W / 40.55957°N 74.16794°W / 40.55957; -74.16794

Region
United StatesFieldsStuttering, Speech disorders
Executive Director
Tammy FloresWebsitewestutter.org

The National Stuttering Association (NSA) is a United States support group organization for people who stutter. Its headquarters are in New York City.[1]

The NSA was founded by Bob Goldman and Michael Sugarman as the National Stuttering Project in California in 1977.[2] Currently the NSA functions through a network of more than 100 local adult, teen, and children's chapters nationwide.[3]

The NSA sponsors regional workshops, youth and family events, education seminars for speech-language pathologists, and an Annual Conference, which hosts an average of 900 attendees. The NSA also publishes educational resources, such as pamphlets and booklets about stuttering, as well as a quarterly newsletter: Letting Go.[1]

In November 2002, the Association received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.[3]

The NSA played a key role in establishing the National Stuttering Awareness Week in 1988.[citation needed]

Annual conference

The NSA hosts a conference in the summer every year in the first week of July in cities throughout the United States.[4] The 2016 conference was a joint conference with the International Stuttering Association. The conference began with a two-day research symposium with presentations and workshops by experts in the field, which is then followed by a four-day general conference which features workshops led by the experts and by volunteers, as well as a keynote.

Hall of Fame

The NSA Hall of Fame

  • 1996: John Ahlbach, NSA Executive Director 1981–1995[5]
  • 1998: Michael Sugarman[5]
  • 2000: John Paul Larkin (Scatman John)[5]
  • 2001: Vivian Sheehan[5]
  • 2002: Eugene Cooper[6][5]
  • 2003: Lee Reeves NSA Chairman of the Board of Directors 1997–2003[5][7]
  • 2004: Annie Glenn
  • 2005: Marty Jezer[8][9]
  • 2007: Annie Bradberry, NSA Executive Director 1997–2003[5]
  • 2009: Judith Kuster

Other inductees include: Fred Murray, Mel Hoffman, Rich Wells, Herb Goldberg, Dorvan Breitenfeldt, John C. Harrison, Russ Hicks, Nina Reeves, and Jim McClure

References

  1. ^ a b NSA webpage: "General Info", "About the NSA"
  2. ^ History of the NSA
  3. ^ a b Distinguished Service Award Nomination for the National Stuttering Association
  4. ^ NSA Webpage: "Annual Conference""
  5. ^ a b c d e f g NSA 24th Annual Conference (2007), pp.56–57
  6. ^ NSA Newsletter, August/September 2002
  7. ^ NSA: What's New: August 16, 2005
  8. ^ NSA: What's New: August 5, 2005
  9. ^ Marty Jezer Memoria

External links

  • Official website