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Election Result for 2022 Treasurer-Elect

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In the recent election Hope Gerlach-Houck was selected by the membership to serve as Treasurer-Elect.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

13th Oxford Dysfluency Conference: Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023

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The Oxford Dysfluency Conference, under the theme ‘Back to the Future’, will be held in-person at St Catherine’s College Oxford from 19-22 September, 2023. The conference is one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023

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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.