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Among FriendsFriends 26th Annual Convention 2023
FRIENDS is hosting our 26th Annual Convention in Chicago this year on July 13 - July 15, 2023. This three-day event is bound to be full of learning, important discussions, and fun. What can you expect from this conference? Keep reading to find out! Making...
Say “hello” to Our New Blog
Greetings, everyone! My name is Allyson Alford, and I am a person who stutters. I am ecstatic to be the person writing the blogs you will see soon! My Story I started speech therapy at the tender age of six. For years, I went to speech therapy to get help for my...
Abena Asare On How a Stutter-Neutral Perspective Disrupts Ableism and Furthers Equality
“I’m trying to undo the whole question of gain or loss. Stuttering just is. If it’s a gain to me, if it’s a loss to you…What do we do with that? How do we learn to accept people and accept ourselves apart from that hierarchy of progress and gains, which are inevitably linked to ideologies about what we can produce for other people and for the national economy?” — Dr. Asare
Dear Rachel
by Michael Retzinger Mike, an SLP in Wisconsin, writes to Rachel Szelfi in response to her article in the May issue of Reaching Out about a speech she gave on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about her dream to be able to tell the world about the respect owed to people who...
Response To Steve Harvey’s Talk About Stuttering (Press Release)
On Monday October 15, 2018, on his show Steve, Steve Harvey had an interaction with a woman in his audience who stutters. We commend Steve for tackling stuttering on television, and specifically for sharing his own experience with stuttering. If more people spoke...
Holiday Message
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