On November 2, I had the pleasure of attending the very first conference of the Newfoundland and Labrador Stuttering Association (NLSA), in Mount Pearl, near the city of St-John’s, Newfoundland. The NLSA is a new stuttering association, founded in 2018.
The 12th Annual Oxford Dysfluency Conference will take place September 23-26, 2020. The 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), under the theme ‘Challenge and Change’, is to be held at St Catherine’s College Oxford.
On Saturday December 7th, The Interprofessional Clinic at Perley-Rideau is offering a Speech-refresher day for youth 10-16 years old who stutter. The day will feature a pre-release showing of the new documentary, “My Beautiful Stutter”.
Our annual CSA conference last month was a huge success! We had record-breaking attendance, including many families, speech-language pathologists and students, and of course - people who stutter of all ages.
There is a new age of support groups starting in the Canadian stuttering community with groups launching across the country. Ottawa and Belleville are the latest cities to plan opportunities for people who stutter, their family and friends and speech-language pathologists to get together and share their ideas and feelings.
Good news! CSA adjunct board member Daniele Rossi's book, Stuttering is Cool, has been translated into French.