Stuttering Foundation of America - - Looking Back and Looking Forward. Although many of you know the Stuttering Foundation. I. would like to take a few minutes to acquaint you with how and why. SFA Founder Malcolm Fraser, my father, was born in 1. Presbyterian minister. When he was about 1.
Dr. Frederick Martin, Superintendentof. Speech Correction for the New York City Schools. Martin. succeeded in helping him become fluent in the clinic and decided. Malcolm in a presentation he was giving to a. When instructed to speak on stage. His first step was to contact a. Memphis to set up the Foundation and then to make his. In those days a new house cost. My father then decided to visit with Dr. One of the first projects they decided on was a study on the. When completed, the study was sent to The. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders for publication. Charles Elliott at. Northwestern University to assist in organizing and developing. Joseph Sheehan and other clinicians trained by. Van Riper were brought in to help run the summer program. The. program was a success and Dr. Elliott pointed out that he was. University for it. At this point, he again met with Dr. Therapy in action : the school-age child who stutters. Stuttering is a frustrating and embarrassing problem for millions of people, but it can be especially tough on elementary school-age children. Help is available for parents, teachers, and speech-language pathologists at most. 0014: Treating the School Age Child Who Stutters: A Guide for Clinicians. Treatment is often highly successful in resolving stammers in pre-school age children. There are many different speech and language therapy approaches that can help people to improve fluency. Action for Stammering. Van Riper and others and. Dr. Joe Sheehan: a week long conference to work. Delray Beach. Florida. Oliver Bloodstein reminded us a few months ago about. Dr. Wendell Johnson. In the fall of 1. Delray Beach conference, at the. ASHA Convention in Cincinnati, there were a number of. One session was on Interdisciplinary. Approaches to Stuttering and included Van Riper and my. Group Therapy in Action. Wendell Johnson; and another was a Symposium of. Recovered Stutterers just as we saw 4. ASHA Convention in Seattle. Therapy in Action: The School-Age Child Who Stutters focuses on elementary-age children, and Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teens is for adolescents. Treating the School-Age Child Who Stutters: A Guide for Clinicians. Introduction: Treatment Philosophy for the School Age Child Who Stutters The purpose of this paper is to provide the clinician with a clinically comprehensive, yet functional source of therapy principles, goals, and activities. Getting back to that Delray Beach conference, one of the. Dr. Stanley Ainsworth was chosen to chair the next. He understood what was needed to keep this group of. On Stuttering: Its Treatment. They have been surprised that. This book summarizes those. These conferences went on through the years. My mother, Charlotte Fraser, worked for the Foundation without. In fact during those early years. Stuttering Foundation.**************************We've taken a look at the past. Let's see what's happening now. Since its first publication, SFA materials have reached well. One of our successful books is. Self Therapy for the Stutterer, written by. Malcolm Fraser. It is now in its 8th edition and has reached more. It has been. translated into eight foreign languages most recently Spanish. Russian, Finnish, Czech, and Danish. These translations have. The research done by Dr. Ehud Yairi of the University of. Illinois on Pediatricians Attitudes about Stuttering. American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of. Family Physicians in 1. Dean Williams and his wife Bette. Although much work remains to be done, they had a. The interest we received from physicians led us to recognize. In 1. 99. 3, it was sent to 2. Board- certified. American Academy of Pediatrics. Its impact is. being felt daily through the number of calls we get from parents. We have also developed a series of brochures that are sent out. The newest additions to these are the Spanish. In 1. 98. 2, we began a new format for conferences - - the two- day. For the last nine years, we have been focusing on what. This year, we held the tenth conference for school clinicians. We are also seeing a ripple effect as these same. In working toward the idea of having specialists in stuttering. Malcolm Fraser), the first Workshop. Specialists in Stuttering was held in 1. Dr. Hugo Gregory. Participants in. this program have come from the United States and 2. Including last year's group, there. U. S. It was attended by 2. Last year the workshop was held at Boston University. This year it expanded successfully into North. Carolina. In 1. 98. SFA began to turn its attention to public awareness. We started the toll- free hotline. This resulted in hundreds of stories about stuttering. In 1. 98. 9 we were on CBS This Morning; in 1. The. Today Show; and in 1. CNN with John Stossel. In 1. 99. 5 and again. Ann Landers featured us in her outstanding column. We are thankful to magazine publishers for our record number. This is space which is. During the past twelve months, more. In 1. 99. 1 we began sending public service announcements (PSA's). This has been another record. Our PSA's are on. ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, America's Health. Network, and Kaleidoscope; they are also on 3. The results of these efforts have been an obvious increase in. SFA's hotline number. We have. anywhere from 2. At this time, we are. In 1. 99. 2 we announced the SFA Media Award for Excellence in. Reporting. This year, the 6th annual Media Awards was announced. National Stuttering Awareness Week. Four years ago, recognizing the growing importance of. Stuttering and Your Child: A Videotape for Parents. Edward Conture headed this project with Dr. Two years ago, we finished work on a new tape. Do You Stutter: Straight Talk for. Teens. And last year, we completed a videotape for. It's called Therapy in Action: The School- Age Child Who Stutters. Finally, recognizing the Internet as. SFA. com). earlier this year. The vast majority of the comments about our. Let's look for a moment at SFA's organizational structure. The. Stuttering Foundation is a nonprofit organization, tax- exempt. Section 5. 01(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. While we are a. private foundation, we are more specifically an operating. The operating budget of SFA is supported 3. Charges for. those materials are much less than cost. A typical book that is. However, we feel that making this small charge avoids. We work very hard at concentrating expenditures on program. What. this means is that donated dollars go directly into helping. We hope that this will help you to better. Stuttering Foundation of America.
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