The International Stuttering Association (ISA) is a nonprofit international support group

Support group

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic...

 organization for people who stutter. It was founded at the first ISA meeting in Linköping

Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

, Sweden, in July 1995.

Membership in ISA is only for national or international self-help organizations of people who stutter, not for individual persons with the exception of non-voting special categories such as Special Friends and Honorary Members.

The first honorary lifetime members of ISA are Jane Fraser

Jane Fraser

Jane Fraser is an American philanthropist, author, editor, businesswoman and the President of The Stuttering Foundation of America, a non-profit charitable organization working toward the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering....

 of the Stuttering Foundation of America

Stuttering Foundation of America

The Stuttering Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization working toward the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering. A 501 nonprofit organization, The Stuttering Foundation was established by Malcolm Fraser in 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee...

, and Judith Kuster

Judith Kuster

Judith Maginnis Kuster, aka Judith A. Kuster, is a certified speech-language pathologist and professor in the Department of Speech, Hearing and Rehabilitation Services at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds an MS in speech-language pathology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and...

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