We'll ask for renewal of membership fees after we have established that there is indeed a regular schedule in place for newsletters. Advocacy and community outreach will be a focus for our work further down the road. Distinguished Service Award for volunteer work at regional, national, and international levels on behalf of people who stutter. A special thanks to Marg Salisbury of London for nominating him, and to the well - spoken individuals in several countries who wrote letters of support. An article by Jaan Pill on Einer Boberg's contribution to the self - help movement appears in a special issue, Vol.
Some studies also look at how activity in the brain is affected by fluency treatment.
We are looking for adults who stutter who are interested in participating in one or more of these studies. The techniques used to study the brain involve either positron emission tomography or functional magnetic resonance imaging . We are very pleased to be working with Biao Zhu , a graduate student in computer science at York University, on a project in collaboration with Stefan Hoffman of Cologne, Germany assisting the International Stuttering Association to establish contacts with people who stutter in China. CAPS has benefited from sizeable grants from many sources, including the Harmonize for Speech Fund of the Ontario Barbershoppers. A previous newsletter described five of 12 guidelines, which also appear on our Web site, that CAPS has developed on how to run a group.