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From: Christina Wilkerson, B.S., Missouri State University, Springfield, Mo.
Date: 22 Apr 2010
Time: 17:04:40 -0500
Remote Name: 64.22.235.172
There is nothing specific being done to increase awareness of cluttering by those countries that don’t have a word for cluttering in their country. The International Cluttering Association (ICA) is working diligently to increase the awareness of cluttering through venues like this on-line conference as well as conferences like the one held in Bulgaria in May of 2007, as well as establishing the International Cluttering Association website. The responsibility for increasing awareness is an interesting and very complex question. I believe that responsibility begins through an understanding that one’s communication is atypical and outside the norm. Then it would become a collective effort to define the difference and seek information to aid how best to educate in the identification and treatment of cluttering. Isabella Reichel, Chair of the Committee of International Representatives and Klaas Bakker, the webmaster for the ICA surveyed fellow members of the ICS about concerns related on the best way to target education/awareness. The responses were varied. According to Reichel and Bakker (2009), the main group was speech therapists, followed by targeting professional organizations, the general public, self-help groups, speech therapy students, teachers and psychologists. Reichel, Isabella K., Bakker, Klaas Global Landscape of Cluttering Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders 2009 19: 62-66