October is a special month for people who stutter. October 22nd is International Stuttering Awareness Day and all month long there is an online conference. The theme of his year’s twelfth annual conference is “Stuttering: More Than a Tangled Tongue”. The International Stuttering Awareness Day online conference, hosted by Judith Kuster , Minnesota State University, Mankato , will open October 1. It can be found by going to The Stuttering Home Page  (www.stutteringhomepage.com).

The online conference features several papers written by well-known professionals and consumers (people who stutter/clutter) from around the world.  Participants can read papers and interact with the presenters on easy-to-use threaded discussions attached to each paper, during the three weeks the conference is “live” — from October 1-22. The ISAD online conference is freely available or can be taken for Continuing Education (1.5/15 hours) or one university credit (either graduate or undergraduate). Instructions and requirements for CEU or credit are online at

http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/requirements.html

Papers remain available online after the conference has ended and all past conferences are archived and available at

http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/onlineconference.html

There are also posters and a brochure for ISAD that you can download from near the top of the Stuttering Home Page - http://www.stutteringhomepage.com/
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