10 Apr 2011
An Historical Discussion of the King’s Speech (271)
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John Campbell is a British political writer and biographer. His works include 2010’s Pistols at Dawn and biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Edward Heath, and Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Campbell has written two volumes on Margaret Thatcher The Grocer’s Daughter and its sequel The Iron Lady. John Campbell was awarded the NCR Book Award for his biography of Edward Heath. Most recently, Mr. Campbell’s book The Iron Lady has been turned into a film starring Meryl Streep who stars as the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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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