The King's Speech cleaned up on Oscar night with golden statues. Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture.
Oscar funding drive continues
Oscar Night Fundraiser
Join the Canadian Stuttering Association in an Oscar Night fundraiser! Jaan Pill has pledged $50 to CSA if The King's Speech wins an Oscar ...
A plethora of articles about stuttering
If someone had told me five years ago that there would be a day when articles about stuttering were everywhere you turned – whether the newspaper, radio, internet or television news outlets – I would have been highly skeptical. After all, nobody talked about stuttering. Yet today, a little movie about a stuttering king has made the condition a hot topic in news media. The general public seems both interested and amused in stuttering because of the depiction of King George VI's struggle with his speech, and journalists are always happy to oblige the latest craze.
Jaan Pill quoted in Toronto Sun article
Current Acting National Coordinator of the Canadian Stuttering Association, Jaan Pill, was interviewed by Marilyn Linton from the Toronto Sun.
Elaine Saitta interviewed
Elaine Saitta, from Seattle, Washington, has been involved in organizations for people who stutter for many years, particularly the National Stuttering Organization.
Another excellent article inspired by the King's Speech
BBC Radio call-in show about stammering
On Monday, January 10, the BBC Radio show 5 live held an interesting call-in show about stuttering, or "stammering" as they call it across the pond.
Peer attitudes toward children who stutter
Article reviewed: "The Peer Attitudes Toward Children who Stutter scale: Reliability, known groups validity, and negativity of elementary school-age children’s attitudes", by Marilyn Langevin, from the Journal of Fluency Disorders, 34 (2009) 72-86.
Hooray for the CSA!
This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of CSA Voices. You can read more about Karen and purchase her book here.
ISTAR researcher wins award for article
The American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has chosen a “Peer Responses to Stuttering in the Preschool Setting,” a research report by Marilyn Langevin, Ann Packman, and Mark Onslow as the recipient of an ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) Editor’s Award for 2009.
Marilyn Langevin is a researcher and speech-language pathologist at the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR) in Alberta.