"The King's Speech", a major motion picture about King George VI, opens September 10th at the Toronto Film Festival. King George reluctantly assumed the throne of England when his brother abdicated, and famously struggled with stuttering his whole life. Find out more about the film and the Toronto Film Festival.
Note: want to be an internet published writer? Send a review of the movie to this website!
In May of 2011, Argentina will host the 9th World Congress for People who Stutter and the 2nd Ibero-Latin American Congress on Stuttering.
The Harmonize for Speech fund has, once again, given its valuable support to the Canadian Stuttering Association.
This is an interesting article from July about writer Ian Crouch's experience with stuttering. (The comments at the end of the article are worth looking at too.) Ian Crouch is also interviewed on Stuttertalk.
After many years of testing, the drug Pagoclone, believed to reduce stuttering in some people, is still not available for general use, and might never be. As reported by Tom Weidig on his blog, Endo Pharmaceuticals is closing the initial phase of testing according to their website, with no plans to put it on the market any time soon.
This July, Daniele, Carolina and I attended the NSA conference in Cleveland.
I have just finished a book that I think any person who stutters should read. It is called Stuttering: A life bound up in words by Marty Jezer.
This article is a summary and review, of the following article:
Article: Coping responses by adults who stutter: Part 2. Approaching the problem and achieving agency
From the Journal of Fluency Disorders, Vol. 34, 2009, 87-107
Authors: Laura W. Plexico, Walter H. Manning, Heidi Levitt
The primary purpose of this study was to understand the range of speakers’ coping responses to the stress of stuttering. Also pertinent was the impact that these various responses have on one’s daily life.
