International Cluttering Association

Mission Statement

Key Objective #1: To increase awareness of the communication disorder of cluttering worldwide among speech-language therapists/logopedists, healthcare professionals, people with cluttering, and the public.

Key Objective #2: To foster research partnerships between investigators, clinicians and consumers in the area of cluttering. This can include international collaborations on research projects between investigators. Researchers throughout the world can organize committees working on the same research project and combine data for more powerful outcomes. In addition, this can also include relationships of mutual benefit between investigators, clinicians and consumers, such as investigators gaining data and consumers gaining clinical advice and information (as individuals within each role are comfortable).

Key Objective #3: To facilitate exchange of information between investigators, clinicians and consumers in the area of cluttering. This exchange would be facilitated through:

• An effective, non-profit, website with international visibility. Among other things, on this website we would post existing resources (with translations into various languages available) for speech-language therapists/logopedists, those with the speech disorder of cluttering and families

• A World Congress every 4 years presenting clinical and research findings, as well as consumer perspective workshops

• Cluttering listservs (the currently developed yahoo group for consumers, and a future listserv for research and/or clinical collaboration)

• Translation of cluttering information into languages other than English
• Organization of mini-seminars for students at the university level and continuing education coursework for speech-language therapists/logopedists

Key Objective #4: To begin to contract moneys, sponsors, to serve purposes of the organization, including:

• Research funding
• Advocacy/representation of the interests of people with the communication disorder of cluttering (such as providing funding for people with the communication disorder of cluttering to attend and present at conferences, etc.).
• Continued development of the organization, such as website development, development of materials for increasing awareness of the communication disorder of cluttering, etc.