[1] The NSA was founded by Bob Goldman and Michael Sugarman as the National Stuttering Project in California in 1977.

[3] The NSA sponsors regional workshops, youth and family events, education seminars for speech-language pathologists, and an Annual Conference, which hosts an average of 900 attendees.

The NSA also publishes educational resources, such as pamphlets and booklets about stuttering, as well as a quarterly newsletter: Letting Go.

[3] The NSA played a key role in establishing the National Stuttering Awareness Week in 1988.

[citation needed] The NSA hosts a conference in the summer every year in the first week of July in cities throughout the United States.