Quality Journalism Honored

The Stuttering Foundation announced its 2012 Awards for Excellence in Journalism during May. "Journalists in a variety of settings have done an outstanding job of focusing on stuttering during the past year," said Jane Fraser, president of the 65-year-old nonprofit foundation. "We are seeing a significant shift in how we reach people - not only through newspapers and columnists but also through websites and blogs. We are particularly excited about increased outreach in Canada and within the Spanish speaking community."

Foundation Releases New DVDs

Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence: Closing the Gap
 
Discussions about evidence-based practice often culminate in claims that there is one best approach to treatment of a particular type of client, or that we lack appropriate evidence or that clinicians lack access to what evidence we have.
 

Hoagland: Writing Wild

The fascinating career of Edward Hoagland, novelist and nature writer was featured in the April 9th, 2012, Wall Street Journal article "Tracking the naturalist." The article shed light on Hoagland's amazing exploits that fueled his conservation writing for almost sixty years. The 79 year-old writer said, "Our world is being destroyed in a quiet holocaust.