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1. The ICA has lost one of its most valuable members and volunteers. After a long struggle, Peter Kissagizlis lost his battle with cancer and died last Sunday, November 8th. Please join us and learn more about what Peter has meant to us, the ICA, and community of people with fluency disorders, especially cluttering.
2. ICA meeting at the coming ASHA convention ("American Speech Language and Hearing Association") in New Orleans, USA;
Meeting Title: International Cluttering Association
Meeting Date: Nov. 19th, 2009
Meeting Time: 7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Set Up Time: 7:00 PM
Location/Room Assignment: Morial Convention Center, 269
Get the agenda here (word) or (*.pdf)
3. Daly's Predictive Cluttering Inventory now also available in Bulgarian and Norwegian! Download the respective forms through "Resources (and Links)" and find them under clinical materials. All files are in *.pdf format.
4. Please check out the ISAD (International Stuttering Awareness Day) online conference at: www.stutteringhomepage.com. The conference should open up for users on October 1st. The conference site commonly contains new information regarding cluttering and allows users to discuss topics related to cluttering online, while it is possible to ask questions to the specialists who are presenting.
5.
Lifetime
achievement award for increasing public awareness
of Cluttering to
Peter Kissagizlis
Figure. David Ward congratulates Peter Kissagizlis
Like many individuals who grow up with
this multifaceted fluency disorder, Peter found help with his cluttering hard to
come by.
Frustrated by this, and by the obstacles that his speech
presented to his career progression, he set out to educate the public and
speech/language professionals alike to the sometimes devastating effects that
this disorder can have, and to ensure that others would have access to the help
and opportunities that he did not.
Peter spearheaded the development of a video and DVD
with his local support group that was one of the first to give an inside
perspective of what a person with cluttering is going through. He has written
numerous articles, list serve postings, and press releases that have shared
important insights about his experiences of cluttering. It is thanks in large
part to Peter’s openness about his cluttering with researchers and professionals
that we understand as much about cluttering as we do today. In this way, Peter’s
efforts have broken the ground for a productive line of research into the
communication disorder cluttering.
It is a mark of the man that despite being seriously ill with
cancer, Peter’s greatest concern was not for himself but that work on increasing
the public’s awareness of cluttering would continue.
It is a priority for the ICA to build on the work that Peter
has done to ensure that this indeed happens.