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Executive Committee ICA
Chair:
Kathleen Scaler Scott, M.S., CCC-SLP, BRS-FD
Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the ICA
Speech-Language Pathologist
Board Recognized Specialist and Mentor in Fluency Disorders
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA; Email:
scalerscott1@earthlink.net
Members: Joseph Dewey (USA), Peter Kissagizlis (UK), Yvonne van Zaalen op't Hof (Netherlands), Yulia Filatova (Russia), Klaas Bakker (USA), Dave Lanouette (USA), Ellen Bennett (USA)
Chairs, Consumer Issues (2)
Joseph Dewey, USA;
Initiated the online cluttering self help group at Yahoo

Peter Kissagizlis (UK), Secretary, web site editor, and co-founder of the Hull & East Yorkshire Stammerers self help group, United Kingdom. I am a person who has a pure clutter.
pak@kissag.co.uk (email)
Peter is associated with the following
websites that are at least in part related to cluttering:
www.speakingout.org.uk
speak@speakingout.org.uk
Clinical Issues Committee
Chair: Yvonne van Zaalen- op't Hof, MSc (The Netherlands);
Lecturer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences;
Eindhoven, the Netherlands; email: y.vanzaalen@fontys.nl;
Stuttering therapist at the Centre for Fluency Disorders;
Amersfoort, the Netherlands; Email: cluttering@vanzaalen.nl
Members:
- Florence Myers (USA): myersbellport@optonline.net fmyers@adelphi.edu
- David Ward (UK): d.ward@reading.ac.uk - Ellen Bennett (USA): ebennett@elp.rr.com
Research/Academic Committee
Chair: Yulia O. Filatova, Ph.D., SLP, (Russia)
Communication Disorders Department Moscow
State Pedagogical University
Russia; yofilatova@yandex.ru
Members:
- David Ward (UK): d.ward@reading.ac.uk
- Deborah Rhein (USA): drhein@nmsu.edu
Membership Committee

Chair:
Ellen Bennett
Lanouette, Ph.D.,
CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, (USA)
Member:
- Laura Overton (membership directory): k.overton@sbcglobal.net
Website Committee
Klaas Bakker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Webmaster ICA
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, USA
KlaasBakker@Missouristate.edu
Members:
- Judy Kuster, USA
- Mariam Hartinger, Germany
Committee of International Representatives
Email: Fluencyren@aol.com
Advisor to International Representatives:
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University.
Email: jgd1@psu.edu
Members:
Argentina: Beatriz Bian de Touzet, MA
Speech language pathologist.
Stuttering Professor at the Buenos Aires University
Honoris President of Argentina Stuttering Association
Email: beatriztouzet@interar.com.ar
Web: www.aat.org.ar
Australia: Susan Block, Ph.D.,
Email:
S.Block@latrobe.edu.au
Bulgaria: Sen. Assist. Prof. Miglena Simonska
South-West University "Neofit Rilski"
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Logopedics
Email: msimonska@yahoo.com
Bulgarian Translation (Bulgarian translation)
Belgium: John Van Borsel, PH.D.
Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University,
Department of Logopaedics and Audiology
Mailing address:
UZ Gent 2P1
De Pintelaan 185
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Email: john.vanborsel@ugent.be
Canada: Carla Di Domenicantonio, M.H.Sc.
Email:
speecheasy.slp@cogeco.ca Francis Patrick Duldulao
Volunteer; student majoring in linguistics and cognitive science
Email:
francispatrickd@gmail.com
China:
Steve An Xue, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Education
Researcher and faculty
Email: axue@hkucc.hku.hk
Germany:
Ulrike Sick Email:
ulrikesick@yahoo.com Manon Abbink-Spruit Logopedist/Speech Language Pathologist (specialist, instructor and
supervisor in stuttering and cluttering therapy) Email: poltern@logo-lingen.de
[Note: Ms Abbink-Spruit also represents The Netherlands]
Deutsch
(By
Manon Abbink-Spruit)
Indonesia:
Muhammad Ishom
Volunteer, interested in cluttering
Bahasa Indonesia
(Indonesian translation) Israel: Ruth Ezrati-Vinacour, Ph.D.
Mei-Tal Halevy
Jordan: Maisa Haj-Tas, Ph.D.
(specialist, instructor and
supervisor in stuttering and cluttering therapy) Email: poltern@logo-lingen.de
Nederlandse Vertaling
(Dutch translation)
[Note: Ms Abbink-Spruit also represents Germany] Norway: Helene Kvenseth,
Volunteer


India: Maya Sanghi
Email: mmsanghi@hotmail.com
Email: ishom_solo@yahoo.com
Senior Lecturer; speech and language pathologist
Dept. of Communication Disorders
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Email: ruthez@post.tau.ac.il
Speech language pathologist
Geriatric Rehabilitation
The Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Tel Aviv University, Israel
meital131@gmail.com
Japan:
Shoko Miyamoto, Ph.D.,
Speech-Language-Hearing Therapist
Mejiro University
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Therapy
Email: miyamoto@mejiro.ac.jp![]()
Lithuania:
Vilma
Makauskiene, Ph.D.,
Psychologist and Speech Pathologist 
The Netherlands: Manon Abbink-Spruit
Logopedist/Speech Language Pathologist
Email: hbknidaros@yahoo.noHilda Sonsterrud,
logopedist/speech language pathologist
Email:
hilda@logopedene.net
Ragnhild Rekve Heitman,
logopedist/speech language pathologist
Yulia Filatova, PhD,
Email: yofilatova@yandex.ru
Русский перевод (Russian translation)
Sudan: Sami Awad Yasin, Ph.D.,
Clinical psychologist
Email: samiyasin2@yahoo.com
Cecilia Lundström, Ph.D.,
Speech Language Pathologist
Instructor at the Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics
University of Lund
Thailand: Sumalee Dechongkit, Ph.D.,
Department of Otolaryngology
Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital
Email: rasdc@mahidol.ac.th
United Kingdom:
David Ward, Ph.D.,
Email: d.ward@reading.ac.uk
Isabella Reichel, Ed.D.,
Email: Fluencyren@aol.com
Anjea Ehrle Ray, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Person who clutters
Email: anjea214@gmail.com