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June 13th: Annual General Meeting 2013

To: All Member Stuttering Associations/Organisations of the European League of Stuttering Associations

Dear Colleague

The European League of Stuttering Associations (ELSA)
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Congrescentrum De Werelt, Westhofflaan 2, 6741 KH Lunteren, The Netherlands

Your association as a member of ELSA is invited to attend this year’s Annual General Meeting.

ELSA will hold the AGM at 14.45hrs Thursday 13 June 2013 at the above location. The approximate duration of the meeting is 45 minutes.

The meeting will be held during the 10th World Congress for People who Stutter.

The Agenda will be uploaded on this website around 3 weeks before the meeting. This invitation is available as download.

The AGM is free to attend however if you plan to stay at the World Congress before and/or after the AGM you are required to register for the World Congress at: http://www.demosthenes.nl/wc2013/index.php/the-congress/registration

Please note registration before Wednesday 1 May 2013 entitles the delegates to a 25% discount.

We look forward to meeting you at the World Congress and the ELSA AGM.

Yours sincerely,

Edwin J. Farr MBE (GB), Anita S. Blom (S), Richard Bourgondiën (NL)

For and on behalf of the European League of Stuttering Associations

Capacity Building

ELSA is a member of the European Disability Forum (EDF).  The EDF is a Brussels based umbrella disability organisation that has good contacts with the European Commission (EC).

The EC has a small project called "Capacity Building" and 5 countries have been chosen to participate in this programme following presentations by their National Disability Councils.
The countries are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and Portugal.
The project will provide funding to allow disability organisations in these countries to work together to raise awareness of the their subject. This includes stuttering associations.

Edwin J Farr, Chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations has been liaising with the EDF and has nominated a representative of the stuttering associations from the 5 countries.
The capacity building will be in the form of seminars and conferences to raise awareness of various disabilities including stuttering during the autumn of 2012.

Edwin J Farr

Chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations

A VOICE AND SOMETHING TO SAY

A VOICE AND SOMETHING TO SAY
Online Conference - October 1st - 22nd

The International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) online conference is hosted by Judith Kuster, emeritus professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato. The conference represents a world-wide endeavor by persons who stutter, their friends and families, students, and professionals (educators, researchers, and clinicians) interested in stuttering.

The conference consists of a variety of papers written by professionals as well as people who stutter. Papers are written in a reader-friendly style with threaded discussions attached for interaction between the presenters and participants for three weeks. All papers remain available online after the conference begins on October 1 and concludes on October 22. Past online conferences are freely available on the Conference Archives (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/isadarchive/onlineconference.html).

The conference is FREELY AVAILABLE and linked to the Stuttering Home Page website ((http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html) starting October 1.