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Review of "Yoga For Stuttering"
Written by Lisa Wilder
Saturday, 25 September 2010 06:14
Review of Yoga for Stuttering: Unifying the Voice, Breath, Mind & Body to Achieve Fluent Speech, by J.M. Balakrishnan
I have been taking Yoga for about five years now, and have found it a very enjoyable form of exercise. Whereas I normally avoid going to the gym, yoga has held my interest for quite some time now and although I still cannot do a headstand or bend backwards all the way I have notice progress. That is why I was excited to see this book, Yoga for Stuttering. Although skeptical, I ordered it mainly out of curiosity.
I had the pleasure of attending the screening of "The King's Speech" last night at the Toronto Film Festival and enjoyed every minute of it.
The movie is about the unlikely friendship that forms between shy, stuttering King George VI (played by Colin Firth) and Lionel Logue (played by Geoffry Rush), his speech therapist. The latter helping the former find his voice. Even King George VI shared our familiar self-doubt: "How can I be king and lead my people with a stammer?"
Review of Marty Jezer's "Stuttering: A Life Bound up in Words"
Written by Rebecca Tasker
Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:45
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. From the very beginning to the end you can relate to him as a person who stuttered severely and still had a life! He explains all of the different therapies he had from a young age up into his fifties and the self-help groups thatenabled him to understand himself as a person who stutters and to help others with his knowledge. He went through multiple forms of therapy – from the Hollins therapy (similar to the PFSP therapy in Canada) to using "the Masker" (a device like the SpeechEasy). Being through these different treatments and working day and night on his fluency he was still unable to gain the fluency that he wanted outside of the clinical setting. Extremely frustrated, at one point in the book he sees a Gestalt psychologist to focus on the emotional upheaval he had been experiencing for so long, but yet had not talked about. This put him into a depression for about two weeks, as repressing such emotions for so long and then uprooting them can cause a trauma in its own right!
Review of Yoga for Stuttering: Unifying the Voice, Breath, Mind & Body to Achieve Fluent Speech, by J.M. Balakrishnan
I had the pleasure of attending the screening of "The King's Speech" last night at the Toronto Film Festival and enjoyed every minute of it.
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. From the very beginning to the end you can relate to him as a person who stuttered severely and still had a life! He explains all of the different therapies he had from a young age up into his fifties and the self-help groups thatenabled him to understand himself as a person who stutters and to help others with his knowledge. He went through multiple forms of therapy – from the Hollins therapy (similar to the PFSP therapy in Canada) to using "the Masker" (a device like the SpeechEasy). Being through these different treatments and working day and night on his fluency he was still unable to gain the fluency that he wanted outside of the clinical setting. Extremely frustrated, at one point in the book he sees a Gestalt psychologist to focus on the emotional upheaval he had been experiencing for so long, but yet had not talked about. This put him into a depression for about two weeks, as repressing such emotions for so long and then uprooting them can cause a trauma in its own right!