The King’s Speech will be shown at the Ottawa Family Cinema on Friday March 11. The movie won Best Film award at the Toronto Film Festival and has already garnered a Golden Globe Best Actor Award for Colin Firth’s portrayal of King George VI who stuttered and his relationship with his speech therapist Lionel Logue. […]
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READ THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Brendon Lamarche is featured in this excellent article titled “The Power of Positive Speaking.” In addition to describing Brendon’s experience as a person who stutters, the treatment he has engaged in and the changes it has made in his life, the article provides other information about stuttering such as recent research into a gene that causes […]
NEXT OAPWS MEETING TO DISCUSS OPENNESS
Our next self-help group meeting on January 19 will discuss stuttering and openness in relationships: how open are we about our stuttering with our family, with our spouse, close friends or even co-workers? Members of the group have been invited to bring a guest to the meeting to discuss this issue. We invite other people […]