Association for stutterers and relatives

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Association for
Stutterers and Relatives (VERSTA)
purpose Improvement of the living situation of stuttering adults and assistance in advising parents with stuttering children
Establishment date: 1978
Seat : Zurich
Website: www.versta.ch

The Association for Stuttering and Relatives ( VERSTA ) is a self-help association for people with fluency problems , especially stuttering, and at the same time sees itself as a nationwide advocacy group for stuttering people in Switzerland. It is the only organization in Switzerland that is recognized by the Federal Social Insurance Office as an umbrella organization for language disorders and whose activities are state-funded through a service contract in accordance with Art. 74 IVG with financial aid to promote disability benefits .

The VERSTA office is located in Lenk in the Simmental .

activity

VERSTA addresses the 80,000 or so people affected by stuttering in Switzerland. The association offers especially through its managing director Beat Meichtry, who together with the stuttering therapist and developer of the natural method Erwin Richter (1911-2001) wrote the book The extended natural method: A course for the treatment of stuttering , information, long-term support and accompaniment of those affected and Relatives and courses. Furthermore, self-help groups are set up throughout Switzerland and supported and looked after by the office.

The association regularly uses World Stuttering Day (October 22nd) as an opportunity to educate and inform about the situation of people with speech disorders and their relatives.

The association sells literature on the subject across Switzerland through its shop and cooperates with Demosthenes Verlag and the German Federal Association of Stuttering & Self-Help for this purpose .

Publications

  • VERSTA-Info: Information magazine for stutterers and others interested in the topic, 3–4 issues per year, ISSN 1423-3754
  • Erwin Richter, Beat Meichtry: The extended natural method: A course for the treatment of stuttering , 5th edition, 1997, Zurich (VERSTA-Verlag) ISBN 3-909086-05-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statutes of versta
  2. ↑ Federal Social Insurance Office: Contractual partner of the FSIO for the organizations of private assistance for the disabled
  3. ↑ Stuttering therapy for those affected in Switzerland. Kassel stuttering therapy, accessed on May 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b On dealing with stutterers and those who stutter. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 17, 2001, accessed on May 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ STOTTER - The fear of speaking. K-Tip, April 11, 2001, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt : Seeing stuttering as an opportunity , October 22, 2013
  7. ↑ Simmental Zeitung : World Stuttering Day , No. 44/2017
  8. ↑ Worldcat: Richter / Meichtry: The extended natural method