About us

Executive Committee ICA

Chair: Kathleen Scaler Scott, M.S., CCC-SLP, BRS-FD
Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the ICA
Speech-Language Pathologist
Board Recognized Specialist and Mentor in Fluency Disorders
Misericordia University, Dallas, PA; Email: scalerscott1@earthlink.net

Members: Joseph Dewey (USA), Peter Kissagizlis (UK), Yvonne van Zaalen op't Hof (Netherlands), Yulia Filatova (Russia), Klaas Bakker (USA), Isabella Reichel (USA), Dave Lanouette (USA), Ellen Bennett (USA)

Chairs, Consumer Issues (2)

Joseph Dewey, (USA)

joseph_dewey@hotmail.com

Initiated and maintains the Online Cluttering Self Help group at Yahoo

Peter Kissagizlis (UK), Secretary, web site editor, and co-founder of the Hull & East Yorkshire Stammerers self help group, United Kingdom. I am a person who has a pure clutter.

pak@kissag.co.uk (email)

Peter is associated with the following websites that are at least in part related to cluttering:
www.speakingout.org.uk
speak@speakingout.org.uk

Chair, Family Issues Committee

JonathanWong Jonathan Wong, (USA)

Parent of a child who clutters

Wongman1@hotmail.com

Clinical Issues Committee

Chair: Yvonne van Zaalen- op't Hof, MSc (The Netherlands);

Lecturer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences; Eindhoven, the Netherlands; email: y.vanzaalen@fontys.nl;
Stuttering therapist at the Centre for Fluency Disorders;
Amersfoort, the Netherlands; Email: cluttering@vanzaalen.nl

Members:

- Florence Myers (USA): myersbellport@optonline.net fmyers@adelphi.edu

- David Ward (UK): d.ward@reading.ac.uk
- Ellen Bennett (USA): ebennett@elp.rr.com

Research/Academic Committee

Chair: David Ward, PhD, MRCSLT, Reg. HPC (UK)

The University of Reading, UK

Also,

The Apple House Centre for Stammering, Warneford Hospital

Oxford, UK

Email: d.ward@reading.ac.uk

Members:

- Yulia O. Filatova, Ph.D., SLP, (Russia): yofilatova@yandex.ru

- Deborah Rhein (USA): drhein@nmsu.edu

Membership Committee

Chair: Ellen Bennett Lanouette, Ph.D.,

CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, (USA)

elanouette@tampabay.rr.com

Member:

- Laura Overton (membership directory): k.overton@sbcglobal.net

Organizational Development Committee

Chair: Dave Lanouette, Ph.D., (USA)

dlanouette@tampabay.rr.com

Website Committee

Chair:

Klaas Bakker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Webmaster ICA

Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, USA

KlaasBakker@Missouristate.edu

Members:

- Judy Kuster, USA

- Mariam Hartinger, Germany

Committee of International Representatives

Chair:

Isabella Reichel, Ed.D.,

Associate Professor

Graduate Program in Speech Pathology,

Touro College, New York

Email: Fluencyren@aol.com

Advisor to International Representatives:

Juris G. Draguns, Ph.D.,

Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University.

Email: jgd1@psu.edu

Members:

Argentina: Beatriz Bian de Touzet, MA

Speech language pathologist.

Stuttering Professor at the Buenos Aires University

Honoris President of Argentina Stuttering Association

Email: beatriztouzet@interar.com.ar

Web: www.aat.org.ar

Spanish Translation

Claudia Diaz

Language therapist and specialist in stuttering.

claudia_d@arnet.com.ar

Spanish Translation

Australia: Susan Block, Ph.D.,

Email: S.Block@latrobe.edu.au

Bulgaria: Sen. Assist. Prof. Miglena Simonska

South-West University "Neofit Rilski"

Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Logopedics

Email: msimonska@yahoo.com

Bulgarian Translation (Bulgarian translation)

Belgium: John Van Borsel, PH.D.

Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University,

Department of Logopaedics and Audiology

Mailing address:

UZ Gent 2P1

De Pintelaan 185

B-9000 Gent, Belgium

Email: john.vanborsel@ugent.be

Canada:

Carla Di Domenicantonio, M.H.Sc.

Email: speecheasy.slp@cogeco.ca

Francis Patrick Duldulao

Volunteer; student majoring in linguistics and cognitive

science

Email: francispatrickd@gmail.com

China:

Steve An Xue, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Education

Researcher and faculty

Email: axue@hkucc.hku.hk

Chinese Translations

Denmark:

Gudrun Østergaard

THI KompetenceCenter

Region Hovedstaden

Rygaards Allé 45

2900 Hellerup

E-mail: gudost@hav1.regionh.dk

Web: www.thi.dk

Faroe Islands:

Ólavur Højgaard,

Hearing-speech and language therapist and advisor,

Specialcenter (SND),

Thorshavn, Faroe Islands

Email address: olavur@snd.fo

France: Véronique Aumont Boucand, MA

Speech therapist, and instructor in fluency disorders

University of Paris

Email: vero.aumont@orange.fr

Germany:

Ulrike Sick

Email: ulrikesick@yahoo.com

Manon Abbink-Spruit

Logopedist/Speech Language Pathologist

(specialist, instructor and supervisor in stuttering and cluttering therapy)

Email: poltern@logo-lingen.de

[Note: Ms Abbink-Spruit also represents The Netherlands]

Deutsch (By Manon Abbink-Spruit)

Iceland: Johanna Einarsdottir

Email: jeinars@khs.is

School of Education

University of Iceland

India: Maya Sanghi
Email: mmsanghi@hotmail.com

Indonesia: Muhammad Ishom

Volunteer, interested in cluttering
Email: ishom_solo@yahoo.com

Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian translation)

Ireland: Margaret M. Leahy, Ph.D.,

University of Dublin, Trinity College

Email: mleahy@tcd.ie

Israel: Ruth Ezrati-Vinacour, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer; speech and language pathologist
Dept. of Communication Disorders
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Email: ruthez@post.tau.ac.il

Mei-Tal Halevy
Speech language pathologist
Geriatric Rehabilitation
The Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Tel Aviv University, Israel
meital131@gmail.com

Japan: Shoko Miyamoto, Ph.D., Speech-Language-Hearing Therapist
Mejiro University
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Therapy
Email: miyamoto@mejiro.ac.jp