In the last few months I have gone thru a very long, expensive and frustrating process of trying to find social group\training for my 14yo son. He is a very...
Hello all, In case you were not aware, the latest edition of the International Cluttering Association (ICA) newsletter is now available on the website. Please...
For those members who also are on Facebook, a new Facebook group was created today for persons who clutter in their speech and for people interested in fluency...
Hello Group, I don't have internet access at home and my cancer showed its evil self again last fall; so, cluttering got put on the back burner -- sort of....
Hello everyone, It is with great pleasure that I send you this email to tell you that the ICA recently presented a "Lifetime Achievement Award" to Peter...
Hi Kathy,  This is the continuation of my last email. I forgot to attached my CV before and now I attached it.  Thanks   ... From: Kathleen Scaler...
Hi Dr Kathy, Â I am Dr Mohammad Farhad, PhD in Medicine from Sydney Umiversity. Â I am member for group email Cluttering Association, so I received your...
Greetings, It is with great pride that I received the award and a surprise to meet up again with David Ward, and to the telephone calls from Kathy Scott and...
Greetings, It is with great pride that I received the award and a surprise to meet up again with David Ward, and to the telephone calls from Kathy Scott and...
Dr. Farhad, I am sorry to hear that the job interviewing has been so frustrating. I am working on securing an academic position so I understand somewhat how ...
... [snip] And recognition and continuing support should go to all the people involved with the ICA, the cluttering newsgroup and any other cluttering...
Was your cluttering acquired or congenital? Mine was acquired and I actually think this is unusual because most of the people on here make it seem like it's...
I don't think we know enough about it to make a decision if cluttering is congenital or acquired. At this time, I know that I have likely always cluttered -...
I agree we don't know enough about cluttering to decide if it is congenital or acquired. However, I do think there may be parallels with stuttering. What we do...
 Hello everybody,   I believe that my cluttering is congenital or from birth but not acquired or inherited.  Here are some tips any one can follow to...
I've seen a few patients at my current job that have had the neurologically-induced stuttering. (I work in acute care trauma, so the bulk of my caseload is...
Hi all, Dr. Mohammad Farhad brought up something interesting about mouth exercises and cluttering, that I've been thinking about too. Last week, I was...
I used to think mine was acquired, but now I think that I was congentially pre-disposed to cluttered speech. I used to think that my cluttered speech started...
My speech was actually extremely advanced for my age when I was young. I talked at an early age and I also put together complex sentences at an early age. My...
Joseph, I find what you say about over and underdeveloped parts of the tongue as very interesting. Although not all, many of the clients I have worked with...
Interesting. There is research pointing to precocious language in stuttering. Most of the clients with cluttering that I have seen also have precocious...
True, Anjea, our literature does show that neurological stuttering does tend to look different than developmental. I wonder if there is a difference in how...
It is so interesting how diverse the population of people who stutter or clutter are. For example, I have not found a tendency for a frontal lisp in the...
I think it would be hard to say if there is a difference between congenital vs acquired cluttering, as we're not even sure yet that there ARE two different,...
When my son was diagnosed by a Cluttering specialist, it was noted that there was a lack of certain muscular movement in his jaw area. My son refused to do...
I am an Indian who has recently subscribed to this group. I speak too fast and for along time I wasn't aware that this problem is classified as cluttering. As...
Hi Prakash, Welcome to the group, and thanks for sharing your story. The International Cluttering Association has a website with resources regarding cluttering...