Our Mission The International Fluency Association is a not-for-profit, international, interdisciplinary organization devoted to the understanding and management of fluency disorders, and to the improvement in the quality of life for persons with fluency disorders. Current News 1. Sixth IFA World Congress 2009 We are pleased to announce the dates for the IFA conference 2009 have been confirmed as August 5th - 8th in São Paulo Brazil South America. First call for paper (Word version; 294k) (PDF version; 68k) 2. The Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress in Fluency Disorders is now available for ordering Click here for more details The Fifth World Congress in Fluency Disorders Dublin, July 25-28, 2006 3. European Symposium on Fluency Disorders 18th – 19th April 2008 This first European Symposium on Fluency Disorders is taking place in Antwerp, Belgium. The theme is Stuttering. The nature....the treatment. Keynote speakers in Antwerp are Nan Berstein Ratner, Luc de Nil, Ed Conture and Kurt Eggers. Nicoline Ambrose and Scott Yaruss will be speaking via a videoconference link. This conference is linked to the launch of the European Clinical Specialization in Fluency Disorders, which is a new and groundbreaking one year specialization course developed by eight different universities of five European countries. 4. Oxford Dysfluency Conference Sources of Evidence: Scientist, Clinician and Client 3 - 6 July, 2008: Sponsored by The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children We hope that many members will be attending the Eighth Oxford Dysfluency Conference which once again will take place at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. The theme for the conference is: Integrating the Evidence The organisers are delighted that Patricia Zebrowski, Marc Shell, Per Alm, Paul Dolan and Anne Smith have all agreed to participate as keynote speakers. The conference has been organised in a way that we hope will help clinicians to integrate the research evidence with clinical practice. For many years this has been the only international conference on dysfluency in the U.K and it provides an ideal opportunity to meet with people from all over the world. 5. Announcing the new ISAD Brochure 6. Winners of the 2006 IFA awards 7. The IFA is proud to announce the online JFD access for all its members. Click here for more details or follow the icon on the left. The announcement and instructions can also be downloaded as word or pdf format. 8. The IFA Newsletter is here or follow the icon on the left. 9. Young bilingual participants needed (Chinese-English) 10. Peer Counseling and Self Help Group Facilitation For People Who Stutter 11. International Stuttering Support Group Project 12. Spreading the Word: International Stuttering Awareness Day October 22nd QuickTime movie (62MB)

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