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Among FriendsWhat Kids Want Their Parents to Know About Stuttering
(Compiled at a recent FRIENDS workshop) Don’t keep bugging me I can talk, it just might take me a second Be patient with me when I have difficulty saying something, don’t finish my sentences for me You can do anything you want to in life Everything is NOT about NOT...
Parent’s Thoughts
At the October 2008 Friends One Day Workshop in Iowa Friends, parents were asked for their thoughts on their child’s stuttering.
I am So Proud!!
For weeks, my daughter Ashlee, age 13, had been talking about doing a presentation on stuttering in front of her class or at an assembly, and I was getting more and more nervous. I was concerned about how her peers would respond, and I did not want her to be disappointed or hurt if it did not go as she expected.
Journeying Through Juggling
by Joseph Donaher Stuggling and Juttering is a program that uses juggling as a metaphor for stuttering at all levels of the therapeutic process. It was developed at Temple University and is based on Woody Starkweather’s Awareness, Acceptance and Change Model...
About Me
(Editors Note: This is a class presentation that Friends member Aileen of New York gave to her tenth grade class.) Hi my name is Aileen. I am the oldest of 3 children and I have a dog named Maggie who is almost 3 years old and gets treated like the fourth child....
Moments
Einstein, as well as other scientists, have given us the wonderful insight that time isn’t as fixed as we might have believed. It can, in fact, speed up and slow down, sometimes at perplexingly the most inopportune moments.