The iStutter site was created in 2005 as part of a year-long project to design an information package for adolescents who stutter. This site was created by fourth year students (Jen Bourke, Simone Fraser, Suzi Josevski, Lisa Sedgley, Brooke Streatfeild and Mitzi Tuke) of the Bachelor of Speech Pathology in the School of Human Communication Sciences at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Thanks to Our Greatest Support People

• Dr Susan Block and Mrs Fiona Ross for their supervision of the project, their invaluable support, guidance and knowledge and their going 'beyond the call' many times to keep the project on track.
• Anthony O'Connell for his voluntary construction of the website, collaborative approach to design, attention to detail, and determination to get the site launched despite set-backs.

Thanks to All Our Volunteers

To construct this site, we relied heavily on voluntary support from members of our family, friends and other contacts. We thank the following people who gave their time so generously.

Technical Support

• David Tuke for his initial liaison, advice and work on the website
• Nick Daskalou for the trickier computer coding of the tables and menu

Promotional Bookmark, Logo and Graphics

• Jane- Frances Gooden for creating the original iStutter logo and the design of the promotional bookmark
• Mick Hollingsworth of ABC Photosigns, Melbourne, for his generous donation of bookmarks. Also, for printing additional bookmarks (funds were obtained from the clinic through a donation from the Myer Foundation to our Adolescent Stuttering program, for adolescent treatment).
• Zac Josevski (age 17) and Emily Tuke (age 12) for the site's hand-drawn graphics
• Gordon Barfield for suggesting the iStutter name

Teenage Input

• The teenaged participants of the La Trobe Communication Clinic's 2005 intensive Smooth Speech program for telling us (via questionnaires) what information they would like on the website, and what they liked about their favourite websites - their input helped to shape the content and design of this site
• Our many teenaged family and friends for responding to our requests for input before and during the site's construction, which helped to decide the site's name, content, design and usability

Thanks to La Trobe University and Associated Insitutions:

• Christine Wade, Julie-anna Batson and colleagues for IT liaison
• Australian Stuttering Research Centre for agreeing to link to our site
• Dr Ann Packman, Dr Michelle Lincoln and Dr Mark Onslow for their academic feedback on the site's content
• The Myer Foundation for providing financial support of both the project's promotion and academic supervision

And Thanks From Each of Us:

Suzi:

• I want to thank my brother Zac Josevski for drawing some of the
  graphics for this website. His time and patience is greatly appreciated. I also want to thank my family and friends for their continuous support throught the completion of the project.

Mitzi:

• My thanks to husband David for his initial work on website, daughter Emily for her drawings, my family for their support and encouragement, brother-in-law Ian for photo of himself and son Jo.

Lisa:

• I would like to thank my friends, family and colleges who completed questionnaires, reviewed the website and provided constructive feedback. I would like to thank Robert Sedgley, Aaron Hollingsworth and Therese Montelto for appearing on the bookmark and the website as well as Theresa Sedgley and Mick Noden for appearing on the website. A special thanks to my brother Robert Sedgley for his patience, he is a teenager and I required his feedback and assistance regularly.

Simone:

• I wish to thank my family and Lincoln's family for allowing me to clog up their phone lines while I worked on the website for the past few months! To my friends and family, thankyou for critiquing the website and giving honest feedback during the construction phase.

Jen:

• For sharing his technical drive and determination to help us create this site, I give huge thanks of course to Anthony, who also supported me in so many other ways. For generously giving us teenage feedback whenever asked, and getting her friends to do the same, I thank my niece Mia Kennett. Finally for ongoing support and encouragement of my studies, I thank my family and friends.

Brooke:

• I would like to thank my family and friends for their support throughout the duration of this project. I would especially like to thank Emily Barnes and Yvonne Streatfeild for reviewing the website and providing constructive feedback. I would also like to thank David Streatfeild for his assistance in printing handouts, and the Thorp family for allowing me to take photos of them to include throughout our website.