Documentary: The Sound of My Voice
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CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, recently aired a documentary about stuttering on their radio network. Unfortunately, I missed it however, fortunately, I have friends who took the time to tell me about it and suggest that I contact the station. I would have never imagined that the following week I’d be at the station recording the intro for the rebroadcast!
Actually, I was recording the intro for CBC Radio One’s superb podcast called “Listener’s Choice” (or “The Choice” as it’s named on the radio version. The podcast provides listener requests for shows they enjoyed on the air.
I just heard the documentary and it is FANTASTIC. The stutterer being interviewed, Andrew McIntosh, describes our stuttering vividly and covers all our challenges: self-lothing, dating, job interviews, the telephone, speaking in front of a crowd, to name a few.
The documentary introduces Andrew to us as someone who tried A LOT of speech therapy throughout his life and now is done with it. He shares with us his feeling that speech therapy makes us feel that we’re broken and need to be fixed.
I share Andrew’s positive outlook on embracing your stuttering and I hope you do, too.
Listen to the documentary, The Sound of My Voice.
Congratulations Danny!
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 amYou keep making strides and publicizing all the right things about stuttering. You are getting a great name for yourself!
Wow! It was so exciting to listen to you! Keep it going, Danny!!! ;)
October 24th, 2009 at 11:05 amThis is fantastic interview. The feelings expressed at the 12-minute mark hit very close to home for me. I haven’t overcome those feelings as Andrew has, but it could happen!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:36 pmKeep up the good work Danny.