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ADULT STUTTERERS SUPPORT GROUP ESTABLISHED

(WORCESTER – April 13, 2005) Worcester State College Assistant Professor Ken Melnick, Ph.D., has established a local support group for adult stutterers as a way to provide mutual support and to share information. Melnick will hold the first meeting 7 to 9 p.m., Monday April 25, 2005 in room 122D of the Ghosh Science and Technology Center at Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street. The group will then be held every last Monday of every month throughout the year. The support group is free and open to the public.

There are currently 70 chapters of the National Stutterers Association across the country. The meeting on April 25 will be the beginning of a new local chapter in Worcester.

Melnick is nationally certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensed to practice speech-language pathology in the Commonwealth. In addition, he has a certificate of specialty recognition in fluency disorders (AB)

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