National Stuttering Association

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National Stuttering Association
AbbreviationNSA
PredecessorNational Stuttering Project
FormationJanuary 1977;48 years ago (1977-01)
FounderBob Goldman, Michael Sugarman
Founded at California
Type NGO
Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Headquarters New York, New York, U.S.
Coordinates 40°33′34″N74°10′05″W / 40.55957°N 74.16794°W / 40.55957; -74.16794
Region
United States
Fields Stuttering, Speech disorders
Executive Director
Tammy Flores
Website westutter.org

The National Stuttering Association (NSA) is a United States support group organization for people who stutter. Its headquarters are in New York City. [1]

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The NSA was founded by Bob Goldman and Michael Sugarman as the National Stuttering Project in California in 1977. [2] Currently the NSA functions through a network of more than 100 local adult, teen, and children's chapters nationwide. [3]

The NSA sponsors regional workshops, youth and family events, education seminars for speech-language pathologists, and an Annual Conference, which hosts an average of 900 attendees. The NSA also publishes educational resources, such as pamphlets and booklets about stuttering, as well as a quarterly newsletter: Letting Go. [1]

In November 2002, the Association received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. [3]

The NSA played a key role in establishing the National Stuttering Awareness Week in 1988.[ citation needed ]

Annual conference

The NSA hosts a conference in the summer every year in the first week of July in cities throughout the United States. [4] The 2016 conference was a joint conference with the International Stuttering Association

NSA Hall of Fame

The NSA Hall of Fame serves to recognize anyone who has made notable gains for the stuttering community.

Notable Members of the NSA Hall of Fame include:

References

  1. 1 2 NSA webpage: "General Info", "About the NSA"
  2. ↑ History of the NSA
  3. 1 2 Distinguished Service Award Nomination for the National Stuttering Association
  4. ↑ NSA Webpage: "Annual Conference""
  5. 1 2 3 "NSA 24th Annual Conference (2007), pp.56–57" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
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