International Stuttering Awareness Day: Consumers and Professionals Working Together

Judith Kuster and Michael Sugarman

International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD), a consumer and professional alliance since 1998, has been an impetus in establishing important connections between people who stutter, their families, clinicians and researchers. This poster session will highlight several of the successful ISAD events that have taken place throughout the world, including important advances in supporting people who stutter in many countries where there had previously been no therapy or appropriate information about stuttering. It will also highlight information about a unique ISAD event, the International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference.