Something to say about stuttering

A Summary of the June Virtual Kids Group It was a great morning hanging out with the Friends kid group on Zoom! We read a book called Something to Say about Stuttering, and then we talked about what helps us when we stutter, what does not help us and who the people in...

Things we wish the world knew about stuttering

A Summary of the May Virtual Kids Group Name a better way to start National Stuttering Awareness Week than with the Friends Kids Group! We had such a fun time together on Saturday! After playing a fun advertising game, we talked about things we wished the world knew...

Kind Words That Humans Need to Grow and Thrive

A Summary of the March Virtual Kids Group “We had a great time on Saturday. We played lip sync where one person lip-synced courageous phrases and the others guessed what was said. We read ‘I am Courage’ and talked about perseverance. We read the lyrics and...

Quotes from Friends Convention 2012

See What FRIENDS kids have to say… I wish you would listen to me I wish you would “get” me I will always remember Friends no matter how old I get I learned that stutterers have lots of support, no matter what I’ve learned that its O. K. to stutter I learned to...

I was a little scared…and I did it anyway!

Young people who stutter show us acts of courage on a daily basis. They often make choices that may increase their risk of being uncomfortable, feeling different and possibly ending up at the receiving end of ridicule. Friends would like to honor these acts of...

What Kids Have to Say About Stuttering

Things I like about stuttering and being a kid who stutters: We get to go to FRIENDS Fake stuttering is fun to do It’s cool that a lot of people stutter Going to speech class Makes us us. We are unique I get to be different We get to meet people People can help me...
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