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Among FriendsStuttering Secrets Shared at a Convention
“Although a large majority of the time I do not focus on my stuttering, I still find myself avoiding and becoming very frustrated and embarrassed when my stuttering surfaces. I am not comfortable with openly stuttering.”
Graduate Student Training Program 2011
It was with no trepidation at all that I attended the 2011 three day Friends: The National Association for Young People Who Stutter conference in Washington, DC last July with 10 of my Montclair State University speech and language pathology student clinicians. The...
A Frightening Realization
by John Litton Editor's Note: After John attended the March 6 St Louis FRIENDS and Family Day with his son, he wrote the following reflection. I want to thank you again for conducting the FRIENDS seminar yesterday. It has impacted me in such a big way. As a child, no...
Our First Friends Convention in Tampa Florida 2009
I first heard about FRIENDS via a flyer from the University of South Florida Stuttering Youth Day Workshop in January 2009. Although I didn’t personally attend the USF workshop, I requested the resource materials to be mailed to us and found out that the FRIENDS 2009...
Wishes for Self – Denver
Parents: Meet new people and help others any way I can My daughter will go to the group she is most comfortable in Young Adult or Teen. Help someone else or another family realize what I have and that stuttering is just another part of him. My best hope for this...
My Experiences as a Volunteer at FRIENDS 2010 Convention
I had no idea what to expect when I decided to enlist as a volunteer at the FRIENDS Convention in Chicago. Since I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into, I decided to throw away any expectations and approach this new experience with an open mind. As an aspiring...