Support Groups for PWS

The Need for and Role of Support Groups

• Adolescents who stutter: the urgent need for support groups (A Parent's Perspective) by Lee Caggiano.
  
• The Role of Self Help/Support Groups in Determining the Outcomes of Stuttering Therapy by Lee Reeves.
  
• Consumer Self-Help and Professional Associations by Charlie Diggs.
  
• Peer Counseling and Self Help Group Facilitation for People Who Stutter - developed by Michael Sugarman.

• Psychological Self-Help by Dr. Clay Tucker-Ladd, is a freely-available online book by a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
  
  
  • Group activities
    
    
    
    • Ice Breakers
      
      
      
      • Icebreakers, Warmups, Energizers, & "Deinhibitizers" (www.wilderdom.com/games/Icebreakers.html)
        
      • Icebreakers from group-games.com
        (www.group-games.com/category/ice-breakers/)
        
      • Name Games & Get to Know Each Other Activities (www.wilderdom.com/games/NameGames.html)
        

    • Support Group Activities collected by Judy Kuster's Undergraduate Class in Fluency Disorders and submitted by many people from support groups (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/kuster8.html)

    • href="http://www.slp.duq.edu/rentschler/STUTTERING/therapy_skills/act_group.htm">Group Activities (www.slp.duq.edu/rentschler/STUTTERING/therapy_skills/act_group.htm) - from Gary
      Rentschler, including "My Favorite Activity for Stuttering Therapy: Lost at Sea" Gary Rentschler (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/rentschler9.html)

    • href="http://www.westutter.org/memberCenter/101-Things-To-Do.htm">101 Things to do - at an NSA chapter meeting (www.westutter.org/memberCenter/101-Things-To-Do.htm)

    • (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad4/papers/hicks2.html) by Russ Hicks (2001) provides several group meeting ideas

    • Speaking Freely (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/speakingcircles.html) by John C. Harrison.

    • A Conversation With My Stutter by Kevin Eldridge.

    • Jokes (http://thinks.com/jokes/index.htm)

    • NSA Chapter Meeting Activity (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/croll.html) designed by Angus Croll from the San Francisco chapter.

    • Stuttering Word Find by Tanya Banks can be adapted for a group meeting - find the words and discuss what they mean to you. Additional word search activities can be developed using the word search generators listed on this page.

    • International Stuttering Support Group Project by Michael Sugarman (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/sugarman8.html)

    • A Group Therapy Experience for Adults Who Stutter a powerpoint by Ken St. Louis (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/therapy10/stlouis.ppt)