Starting and Maintaining Self-Help Groups

How to start and run a self-help group from CSA the Canadian Stuttering Association.

Group Activities

• Ice Breakers
  • Ice Breakers and Team Builders
  • Icebreakers from group-games.com (http://www.group-games.com/category/ice-breakers)
  • Icebreakers to Warm Up Your Meeting
  • 10 Simple Team Building Icebreakers
• Support Group Activities collected by Judy Kuster's Undergraduate Class in Fluency Disorders and submitted by many people from support groups
• "My Favorite Activity for Stuttering Therapy: Lost at Sea" Gary Rentschler
• The Chicken and the Alligators - or - How to Facilitate a Support Group Meeting provides several group meeting ideas
• Speaking Freely by John C. Harrison.
• A Conversation With My Stutter by Kevin Eldridge.
• NSA Chapter Meeting Activity 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
• A Group Therapy Experience for Adults Who Stutter a powerpoint by Ken St. Louis (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/therapy10/stlouis.ppt)