101 Stuttering Links

Don’t FEAR Your Stutter…You’re Still Standing!

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Link #60 Don’t FEAR Your Stutter, be PROUD, You’re Still Standing! is a motivating video by the super awesome Philip Garber who shot it for International Stuttering Awareness Day. What I like about his video is his complete honesty and fierce call to all stutterers to not fear speaking.

Interview with Colin Firth

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Link #59 BSA Chief Executive Norbert Lieckfeldt sat down with Colin Firth to talk about his role in the upcoming movie “The King’s Speech“. In particular, Firth’s honest portrayal of stuttering and what he learned about what we stutterers experience. My favourite quote from Firth: “I am doing a double journey, I have to learn [continue reading...]

Stotters

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Link #58 Stotters is the name of a Belgian documentary about Jef, an 18 year old with with autism spectrum disorder who is struggling to overcome his stuttering. After many failed attempts to conquer his stuttering, this film documents Jef’s last attempt but this time with his speech therapist who also struggled with stuttering. After [continue reading...]

Stefano Filipponi – fantastic stutter, angelic voice

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Link #57 Lots of links in this post! While I’m definitely not a fan of reality tv, I can’t help but keep an eye on the Italian X-Factor that’s going on as I type this. One of the contestants, Stefano Filipponi, has a severe stutter and naturally, I’m rooting for him. And deservedly so, he’s [continue reading...]

The King’s Speech theatrical trailer

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Link #56 Finally! The theatrical trailer for “The King’s Speech” starring Colin Firth as King Geroge VI and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue, the royal eccentric speech therapist. I noticed one line was slightly changed from the movie ;) Just watching this gets me on the edge of my seat. Can’t wait to see it [continue reading...]

Wild Eyes

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Link #56 My friend Jonathan from beautiful Québec City alerted me to this fascinating episode of NPR’s Radio Lab about Alan Rabinowitz and how he came to start his work in building wildlife sanctuaries around the world. It all started one day in the zoo back when Alan’s stuttering was severe when he was a [continue reading...]

Beware of online stuttering shopping sites

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Link #55 Tom Weidig over at the fantastic The Stuttering Brain blog has been posting about a website claiming (and at the same time, not claiming) to have a stuttering cure.

Stuttertini

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Link #54 As of writing, the Stuttertini has been born. I asked David Friedman, my new stuttering friend who I met at this year’s NSA Conference, to create a martini to reflect and commemorate the awesomely cool experience of attending an NSA Conference: Stuttertini 2 pts vodka 1pt triple sec 1/2 part grenadine 1/2 part [continue reading...]

Stuttering acceptance is like planting a seed

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Link #53 I came across a fantastic post by Sachin of the Indian Stammering Association mentioning the Ti-Ger Analogy (Thanks! And I think it’s so cool that the analogy is known in India!). Sachin explains how growing up, he thought that if he could read as much about stuttering as he could, then one day he could [continue reading...]

The Modern Stutterer

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Link #52 Once again, as always, another excellent post over at Stuttering Hub by Hiten Vyas. And I’m not just saying that because I’m mentioned ;) Hiten wrote up 8 characteristics of modern stutterers. A very positive read. Thanks Hiten!

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