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1. Agenda available here for the ICA meeting at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (Chicago, IL, USA). The meeting will be held only as a convenience to the members who are able to attend. Decisions affecting the ICA are made only involving the entire membership.

3. Mark your calendar! Those ICA members that will be attending the coming Annual Conference of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) meeting in Chicago (USA) are invited to attend the ICA meeting in room CC21 B/C on Thursday evening of the conference (Nov. 20th; 7:30pm). Please note that the room assignment has been recently changed!.

4. There will be several presentations on cluttering at the coming annual national meeting of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) (to be held at: November 20-22nd in Chicago (USA):

Follow the links for obtaining the abstracts for these presentations and specific information about the presentations themselves.

5. Clinical Issues Committee Chair, Yvonne van Zaalen op't Hof, reports the following presentations on cluttering in Europe during the summer months (2008):

Presentations at conferences in Bulgaria, Denmark, Ede (Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium) and Oxford (United Kingdom).

Lectures on cluttering have been presented at the ICA, IALP, NVLF, ECSF conferences in Bulgaria (representatives from several countries around the world), Denmark (representatives from the Netherlands, Norway and Bulgaria), the Fluency Conference in Antwerp (representatives from Bulgaria), the Dutch SLP Association and the Oxford Disfluency Conference (representatives from America, Bulgaria and Holland). Content of the lectures was on both assessment instruments and diagnostic characteristics, therapeutic intervention and professional awareness of cluttering.

5. The Resources/Links tab is gradually expanding. Please read the latest addition to the ICA library:

Isabella and Anjea are both representatives for the United States in the International Cluttering Association (ICA).

Correction: Anjea Ehrle Ray is second author to this article; her name was left off by mistake in the final print.

6. A begin is made with the Clinician Self Referral process (July 7th). Clinicians who consider themselves prepared to treat cluttering can register to become listed on this site. In order to become registered, a downloadable form needs to be filled out and submitted to the membership committee. The actual database of available clinicians (organized in region of the world and country/language) is expected to go online within the next two months. Until the page goes up, a temporary page will remain online.

7. New translations of essentials of this website have been added recently. These translations may be found at your country representative listing in the "About Us" link on the left. Currently available languages: Indonesian, Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Russian. The translation process is "as needed" and ongoing. It is anticipated that within the next two months an Arabic and Chinese translation of the essentials will go online.

8. May 14th is "Cluttering Awareness Day". Kathy Scaler Scott asks all of us to send a message to ten individuals who we believe should be made aware of cluttering. A starter message can be found here.

9. As of April, a Dutch translation of essentials of the website is available (see your country representative in the "About Us" tab for a link to this translation; a German translation is in the make)

10. As of March 26, 2008 the Predictive Cluttering Instrument (PCI; Daly, 2006) is available for downloading. A German translation of the PCI was recently added.