Each year the Malcolm Fraser Community Service Award is presented by the Mid-South Conference on Communicative Disorders to an individual in the Memphis community as a tribute to a man who contributed greatly to the field of communicative disorders, namely in the field of stuttering.
Malcolm Fraser, together with his brother, was one of the early founders of the NAPA Genuine Parts Company in Atlanta in 1928. He used the money from auto parts stock to start the Stuttering Foundation of America. Today the Foundation reaches people in 126 countries, and Mr. Fraser’s book, Self Therapy for the Stutterer, has helped countless numbers of people who struggle with stuttering.
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