10 Apr 2011
An Historical Discussion of the King’s Speech (271)
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10 Apr 2011
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17 Nov 2010
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David Seidler, 73, is the British born, Long Island raised script writer of the wonderful new film The King’s Speech which won The Toronto Film Festival’s most popular film award and is expected to be the dominant film at this year’s Oscars. During this episode Mr. Seidler discusses his own stuttering, writing the script, researching the project, rehearsals, specific scenes and working closely with Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper to get the stuttering right.
5 Nov 2010
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Taro Alexander joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the wonderful film The King’s Speech.
TARO ALEXANDER is a person who stutters, a professional actor and Founder and Artistic Director of the Our Time Theatre Company in New York City – “An artistic home for young people who stutter.” Taro also founded Camp Our Time – an annual summer camp for young people who stutter and their siblings and friends between the ages of 8-18. In 2002 Taro was honored by the National Council on Communicative Disorders at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he received the Charles Van Riper Award. Alexander performed for 4 years in the successful Off-Broadway production of STOMP. Check out this great article by Taro describing Our Time and this great article by some of the Our Time actors.
27 Oct 2013
It’s Always Sunny on StutterTalk: Stuttering in the Media (Ep. 426)
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Robert “the Expert” Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering in the media. They discuss the use of stuttering on the situational comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 9, Episode 7). Then they discuss a story out of the United Kingdom (see video below) regarding a 16-year-old high school student, Musharaf “Mushy” Asghar , who is fearful of taking his oral exams. One of Mr. Asghar’s teachers, influenced by the film The King’s Speech, has Mushy practice speaking while wearing headphones and listening to music.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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