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Despite the apparent lack of action, this film is the story of a hero, battling and invisible enemy that torments him in the time of greatest need for leadership his nation had ever faced. Worldwide, over 70 million people suffer from this condition – many of which have praised the new film for it’s accuracy in depicting their struggles, difficulties and also for bringing to light certain truths and demystifying certain aspects of stuttering.
Erik Yehl, an 11 year old boy from Chicago, said the film reassured him that he wasn’t “stupid” – a common bullying theme that haunted him since preschool.
Not only Erik faces this sort of stigma, it’s affected every person who’s ever stuttered – the idea that if words don’t come out right, there must be something wrong with their brains.
Susan Hardy, mother of 14 year old Aidan said that the stigmatization of people who stutter is unfounded. She criticized people that tell stuttering children to breath or that consider them to be deaf. According to Mrs. Hardy, stuttering children are not deaf and are perfectly capable of deciding when to breath.
The movie, about King George VI, father of England’s Queen Elisabeth II, focuses on his tormented experience, having to lead a nation gripped by fear during the Second World War, while he himself is gripped by a devastating condition which does not favor his position.
Already, the actors have won Golden Globes along with other honors and 12 Oscar nominations.
Stuttering people easily connect with King George in the movie as he is treated like any other man when visiting his speech therapist. The film focuses intensely on their relationship.
Clarence Page, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has said that the film brilliantly depicts George’s battle with the condition, a battle that he has waged for the better part of his 63 years.
Page can easily empathize with the King as he has battled with stuttering also. His speech therapist helped him win a speech contest where he had miserably failed only one year before.
Page has also said that in his opinion, every stuttering child needs such optimistic help. He recently wrote articles praising the movie.
President of the Stuttering Foundation of America, Jane Fraser said the film helped her remember her experience with her father who also stuttered. Malcolm Fraser formed the foundation in 1947 in order to raise awareness and push for public understanding of the subject. Jane said, after watching the film, that it brought back memories of how she used to suffer on behalf of her father’s stuttering.
She also said that the filmed managed to do in a couple of hours what she had been trying to do for 63 years in bringing across the message of just how devastating this condition is.
Worldwide, stuttering affects 1 percent of the entire population with 3 million sufferers in the United States alone. It starts simply around the age when children first learn to speak, it mostly affects boys. Most children grow out of the condition, but for some it rages on and on and disrupts many aspects of their lives. It’s thought to sometimes run in the family and in some cases genes are thought to be the culprits.
Erik Yehl, an otherwise perfectly normal basketball and video game enthusiast, said the film hit close to home at some points. Specifically, the scene where George’s speech goes terribly wrong, was particularly difficult to watch. Colin Firth‘s brilliant acting, makes is easy even for people who don’t stutter to feel the shame with which George lived for so many years.
Curiously, Erik’s stuttering only occurs when he is nervous. When calling out to his fellow team members in basketball, he speaks quite fluently.
Surprisingly, as the film also shows, people who stutter may find a break in singing, acting on stage, imitating foreign dialects, speaking to infants or to animals and playing sports.
Emily Blunt, a British actress apparently chose her career after realizing that her own stuttering problem disappeared once she began acting on stage.
Ehud Yairi, professor at the University of Illinois, stated that after having done many brain scans on the subject, scientists were still not sure why some activities temporarily cured some stutterers but not all. Also, it isn’t very well known what causes the different brain activity that occurs when people stutter.
Last year, research published on stuttering found that there might be 3 certain genes that contribute to the problem of speech impediment.
Yairi, who also stutters and speaks at a slow pace, said it was unclear what function these genes had and whether they contributed significantly to stuttering. He also said that much research needs to be done to determine what the impediment actually is – something which has eluded specialists for a long time.
The long held belief that psychological factors, such as mistreatment in childhood (the cause depicted in the film) has been largely dismissed by scientists, Yairi says.
When children begin to stutter, they aren’t aware of shame or the negative social impact that it has. Only as they mature do they realize the disadvantage that the condition represents.
Another long held belief was that reprimanding children as they learned to speak was an indubitable cause of stuttering. Such beliefs have long been put to rest by modern science.
Yairi reassured us that it is most certainly not a cause of stuttering. Irrespective of the cause, negative outcomes from stuttering children can definitely determine how it will develop.
Knowing what it’s like to be bullied for it, Aidan Hardy said that he hates it when he is told to calm down and focus, as if these actions had anything to do with stuttering.
Aidan continued by giving examples of things that might help people talk better and things that would not benefit the situation in any way. He also hopes that this new movie will put to rest certain misconceptions about stuttering and the people it affects.
It’s also been said that stutterers will prefer to adopt a different vocabulary just to avoid using certain troublesome words. Some might even go as far as asking for pears instead of apples, thus avoiding that difficult “a”.
Stephanie Hirsh, a prominent speech therapist, said she overcame part of her stuttering by adopting a certain breathing technique. Similar solutions were used in the film by George’s therapist, for example adding “ah” before the dreaded word.
Letting stutterers take their time in speaking is crucial. You should let them know how much you want to hear what they have to say and just give them that space and time, Hirsh said.
Also according to Hirsh, not bringing stuttering itself into the discussion, many children often grow out of it without even knowing they have it.
However, the new approach is just that. Talking about it and not letting it evolve into something uncontrollable.
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