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ELSA's past highlights and accomplishments JULY 2003 July 2003 saw ELSA's 4th Youth Meeting take place in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Reports below are by delegates Rezina Ahmed, Andrew Janes, Veeral Dhanani with a final comment by ELSA Chair Edwin Farr. Introduction ( Rezina ) The European League of Stuttering Associations (ELSA) conference for young people who stutter this year was held in the Netherlands during the hot month of July, the theme of this years conference was "Extending Communication - Extending Borders". ELSA is set up to bring together many european national stuttering associations - to discuss the work of our individual national stuttering associations, to encourage young people to get involved with their national associations and self-help groups as well as creating a supportive network of young people who stutter, to share different knowledge and experiences of their stutter and to empathise and support each other. There were many different work shop activities and lectures from the workings of a national stutteirng association, positive thinking, non-verbal communications to drama and group challenge in web site design of stuttering associations. My own reason for going to this conference was a mixture of personal interest and curiosity to learn how other European countries deal with stuttering across the borders. While I was there I took opportunities to sit and talk to many people through out the work shop activities - finding out how they view their stutter, how they deal with it, what speech and alternative therapies they have been on and general life experiences. |