# International Fluency Association (IFA) Joint World Congress

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · 2021 · $40,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
This grant seeks support for graduate student and early career faculty travel to attend the 10th World
Congress on Fluency Disorders, to be held July 22-25, 2021 at the Montreal Conference Centre,
Montreal, Canada
The IFA World Congresses have a long and distinguished history going back almost 30 years, and have
long attracted both senior and junior researchers and clinician attendance. It publishes proceedings, and
many Congress contributions have gone on to both publication and citation in other research
publications. For 2021, the World Congress continues to pair with other major organizations to broaden
participation and impact. Although financially enabled by commitments of the International Fluency
Association, it will engage with: the International Cluttering Association, the International Stuttering
Association (representing consumers and families world-wide) and a Francophile consumer association
specializing in fluency disorders (Association Bégaiement Communication (ABC)). This broad inclusion,
together with the traditionally research- and clinical-service oriented IFA, is meant to strengthen the
development of Person-Centered-Care approaches most closely meeting the needs of PWS.
The need for junior researcher attendance at the World Congress is of significant importance, given the
declining numbers of faculty researchers in communication sciences and disorders, in the United States
and abroad, and in fluency disorders specifically. Past meetings have greatly contributed to the
development of early career investigators who have gone on to achieve well in their research,
publication and funding careers. This meeting will also offer students and early career faculty a
workshop to develop grantsmanship and publication skills. It will also host a workshop designed to
mediate consumer group, researcher and clinician viewpoints on research needs in fluency disorders.
Taken together, this meeting of dedicated researchers, clinicians and patient advocates should result in
high quality proceedings and peer-reviewed research publications. It should also facilitate long-term
health impacts in understanding and treating fluency disorders that will continue the positive
contributions made by IFA Congresses over the past three decades.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10142597
- **Project number:** 1R13DC019265-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
- **Principal Investigator:** NAN BERNSTEIN RATNER
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $40,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-01-01 → 2022-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10142597

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10142597, International Fluency Association (IFA) Joint World Congress (1R13DC019265-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10142597. Licensed CC0.

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