Academic and Community Service

In her capacity as the Chair of the International Representatives Committee of the International Cluttering Association (ICA), Dr. Reichel conducts international surveys, leads multinational collaborative initiatives in research, and seminars at International Congresses and Conferences. She chairs the Deso Weiss Awards Committee sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation of America and the ICA

Teaching

Dr. Reichel is a member of the Multicultural Task Force of the National Aphasia Association and she runs the Russian-speaking Aphasia group at the Touro College Speech and Hearing Center.

She is a member of the Editorial Review Board of a few national and international publications

Publications

Her articles and chapters on the topics of stuttering, cluttering, emotional intelligence, and stigma regarding people with fluency disorders have been published and presented nationally and internationally.

Together with Dr. Yvonne van Zaalen, Dr. Isabella Reichel co-authored a textbook, entitled Cluttering: Current Views on Its Nature, Assessment and Treatment. This book was translated and published in Japan,

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What is cluttering?

While most people around the world have an idea of what stuttering is all about, most are not familiar with the fluency disorder of cluttering. Cluttering is a disorder of speech fluency in which people are not able to adjust their speech rate to the syntactic (grammar) or phonological (word structure) demands of the moment (van Zaalen, 2009). PWC often say: “I think I stutter, but actually it is not real stuttering.” Or they say “Others always complain that I am not intelligible and speak too fast, and I want to get rid of these complaints."