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Bal (Honey)

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #73: Bal. I’ve just been alerted to a Trukish film entitled Bal (Honey). While the trailer is a little vague in letting you know what the movie is about, the good people at the official website tells us tells us it’s a movie about Yusuf, a stuttering boy who accompanies his father in the forests [continue reading...]

Letting your stuttering shine

Thursday, March 24th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #72 Here’s a fellow stutterer who doesn’t let his stuttering call the shots. Boom Monk Ben is an independent music promoter and DJ who recently gave a talk at Glasgow University during SRC Media Week 2011. You’ll no doubt be inspired and motivated by the fact that Boom Monk Ben doesn’t hide his stuttering [continue reading...]

Stuttering retrospective by Dr. Alan Rabinowitz

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Tags: Alan Rabinowitz
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Link #71 I blogged about the super awesome Dr. Alan Rabinowitz in the past. This time around, it’s a collections of video clips by Schneider Speech featuring Alan’s thoughts on how stuttering shaped his self-image and the blessings it brought to his life. Man, I can totally relate to everything he shared. Plus, he shares [continue reading...]

My interview in the Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, January 29th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #70: Message received loud and clear: Critically acclaimed movie The King’s Speech strikes an emotional chord with long-suffering stutterers written by Carolin Vesley of the Winnipeg Free Press is an article featuring 3 stutterers. One of them is me!

Joe Biden’s advice to a fellow stutterer

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #69: A letter written by Joe Biden offering advice to a fellow stutterer! Back in 1994, an eighth grader raised his hand to ask then Senator a question during his presentations’ Q&A session. Upon hearing the student’s stuttering, Biden gave him a little advice in private later on. In a nutshell, his advice was [continue reading...]

Five presentation lessons from The King’s Speech

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #68 I came across this spiffy presentation showing how the movie, The King’s Speech, can be a lesson in giving presentations. Though, I’m not too fond of slide 20 where it’s implied that stuttering is a psychological problem but that is indeed what Logue was doing back in the 30s. It was a time [continue reading...]

Powerful short film about stuttering

Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #67 This Dutch short film from 1998, called To Speak, is currently making it’s rounds among the online stuttering community. I first heard about it from several of my fellow stutterers on Facebook. Wow, what a powerful film! In just 12 minutes, it portrays EXACTLY the horrible experiences and emotional scars that we must [continue reading...]

The King’s Speech book… and more!

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 Posted in links, stuttering | 1 Comment »

Link #66 The King’s Speech is a book as well! Of course, I read it and of course, I loved it. It’s written by Lionel Logue’s grandson, Mark, who – picture it – your parents always had these pictures of King George VI around and one day your aunt tells you about a box of [continue reading...]

Going With The Flow

Monday, December 20th, 2010 Posted in links | Comments Off

Link #66 Following up from their earlier film, Transcending Stuttering: The Inside Story, Dr Phil Schneider and Dr. Uri Schneider recently released Going with the Flow: A Guide to Transcending Stuttering. The theme in this film is change. Children who stutter don’t seek speech therapy. Their parents do. So the concept of change is in [continue reading...]

Transcending Stuttering