King's Speech' Gets Stuttering Right

The film "The King's Speech" authentically portrays "the difficulty, fear, and low self-esteem that many stutterers have," says Dr. Suzanne Reading, a speech-language pathologist for 30 years and director of Butler University's Communication Sciences & Disorders Program. Actor Colin Firth delivered a realistic sounding stutter, she said, "especially the long pauses that can occur when a person who stutters is trying to start a stream of speech."

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