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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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Abbreviation | NSA |
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Predecessor | National Stuttering Project |
Formation | January 1977 |
Founder | Bob Goldman, Michael Sugarman |
Founded at | California |
Type | NGO |
Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
Headquarters | New York, New York, U.S. |
Coordinates | 40.55957°N 74.16794°W |
Region | United States |
Fields | Stuttering, Speech disorders |
Executive Director | Tammy Flores |
Website | westutter |
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]
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. The conference began with a two-day research symposium with presentations and workshops by experts in the field, which is then followed by a four-day general conference which features workshops led by the experts and by volunteers, as well as a keynote.
The NSA Hall of Fame
Other inductees include: Fred Murray, Mel Hoffman, Rich Wells, Herb Goldberg, Dorvan Breitenfeldt, John C. Harrison, Russ Hicks, Nina Reeves, and Jim McClure