Guide for younger children

Teddy Bear Talk Support is a way to help people be able to talk through things. How it works is that one person listens while another person talks. The listener is called the teddy bear because the listener does a special kind of listening which involves very little talking. The only talking that the teddy bear does happens only when the talker asks for it. For example, the talker might ask the teddy bear to use the teddy bear’s own words to say back some of what the talker has said. Or the talker might ask the teddy bear to make guesses at how the talker is feeling.

Sometimes just getting to say things out loud to someone can make a big difference. Teddy Bear Talk Support makes it so that all you have to do to get that is to say, “Can you be my teddy bear?”