National Recognition, Honors and Awards

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FROM ASHA

In 1978, the then 68,000-member American Speech-Language-Hearing Association gave its highest award, the Distinguished Service Award, to the Stuttering Foundation of America for its "dedication and effective contributions to the field of speech pathology."

NCCD AWARD

In 1984, the founder and director of the Foundation, Malcolm Fraser, received the fourth annual National Council on Communicative Disorder’s Distinguished Service Award for the Stuttering Foundation’s national contribution to helping those who stutter.

In citing Fraser for the award, the NCCD, a council of 19 national organizations representing the communicatively disabled, recognized the Foundation’s efforts in "adding to stutterers’, parents’, students’, clinicians’, and the public’s awareness and ability to deal constructively with communication disorders."