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What is The Communication Collaborative?

The Communication Collaborative is a research group in solidarity with The Newfoundland and Labrador Stuttering Association (NLSA) and those with speech, language and voice impairments living in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We are people who stutter (PWS), members of provincial government, members of the public, educators, speech-language pathologists, academic researchers, university students, mental health professionals, disability advocates, and NLSA members. For more information about the NLSA - which is dedicated to advocacy and support for people who stutter - please visit their website.

Our collaborators & stakeholders:

1. learn about stuttering research and how it could be used for NLSA advocacy
2. implement ways to leverage support from public and private agencies
3. participate in research (e.g. to study / recognize deficits in the province’s programs and services for PWS)
4. promote cross-discipline research at Memorial University
5. provide learning experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students attending Memorial, and MUN alumni (e.g. speech-language pathology students who are attending graduate schools out of province).

Current Projects

[Some Stutter, Luh!](https://somestutterluh.ca)
[Accessibility surveys](2022-04-01-ACCESS_SURVEY.md)
The Science of Stuttering: an open educational resource
A Short Film About Discommunication
Sociolinguistics & Communication Disorders

Completed Projects

[Getting the Words Out](https://youtu.be/q5qlJvbfsCk)

We gratefully acknowledge our funding partners

Memorial University's [Office of Public Engagement](https://www.mun.ca/publicengagement/): [Quick Start Funding](https://www.mun.ca/publicengagement/funding/quickstartfund.php) & [Accelerator Grant](https://www.mun.ca/publicengagement/funding/accelerator.php)
The [J.R. Smallwood Foundation Research Grant](https://www.mun.ca/smallwood/grants/research_grant.php)
The [Undergraduate Student Summer Internship Program](https://research-tools.mun.ca/funding/opportunities/university-student-summer-internship-program-ussip-2022-2023/)
[Graduate Student Work Experience Program](https://www.mun.ca/student/career-services/build-work-experience/work-on-campus/grad-student-work-experience-program---gradswep/)
[Memorial Undergraduate Career Experience Program](https://www.mun.ca/student/career-services/build-work-experience/work-on-campus/memorials-undergraduate-career-experience-program/)

With in-kind assistance from

[Cranky Goat Entertainment](https://crankygoatentertainment.ca/)
[The Newfoundland and Labrador Stuttering Association](http://nlstuttering.ca/)
[Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists](https://nlaslpa.ca/)

News and Blog

Coming soon: Some Stutter, Luh! will have a blog, [available here](blog).