Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
HAVERHILL - Despite disabilities including a speech impediment, Mary Pina easily communicated her love to her 6-year-old nephew, Daquon, whom she often hugged and rocked to sleep.
Science Now (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
CNTNAP2 speaks volumes about why some suffer from language impairment
Interesting Thing of the Day (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The Greek orator Demosthenes overcame a severe speech impediment by forcing himself to speak with stones in his mouth.
Girl On A Wire (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
First, we had the credit crunch. Then the death of capitalism (until next year, when it re-invents itself once more). Then the US election. Then Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, a combination of hair that would give Albert Einstein a run for its money and a very highly paid speech impediment, stir the righteous horror [...]
USC News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
USC Annenberg’s distinguished emeritus professor was an expert on stuttering who challenged conventional beliefs about the speech disorder.
Performancing (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
In this wacky speech impediment episode of Perfcast, David and I discuss a number of topics including, comments and copyright, three ways in which a blog will help you survive the economy, blogactionday, why looking for inspiration is a bad thing, bloggingtips forum competition and basic steps to take to host a blog contest. Also in this episode, I announce that those who participate in the blogging...
BPS Research Digest (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Stuttering is a form of speech disorder characterised by difficulty getting words out, and involves repetitions or prolongations of sounds. These difficulties usually arise in early childhood and one way of helping children who stutter could be for them to read novels that involve a character who stutters. However, whether such books will be helpful depends on how stuttering is portrayed. To find out...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
• Charlie Hustle's post-career popularity continues to soar: A fan with a speech impediment reveals his run-in with baseball's all-time hits leader at a memorabilia show: " I told him how much...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Cheater: According to Scornerston, [Pete] Rose was “clearly annoyed” and responded by mocking Scornerston’s lisp, saying, “Did ya thee me on Thaturdayth? With your thithter?’ Then just looks away.” Then, the fan said, ‘OK, just wanted to say hi.’ And Rose, looking away, said, ‘Roger that.’ (Dick!) Later, the fan was looking at Rose, who [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Speaking to the Georgia GOP’s Victory Dinner 2008 last night, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) “blamed Democrats for the nation’s financial woes.” Boehner took “particular aim” at Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), going so far as to mock Frank’s slight speech impediment: Boehner took particular aim at U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who controls a powerful [...]
designers block (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
No I haven't got a speech impediment, this is what this site is called. Shelf is a shop in London and they sell this great variety of letters for your walls or whatever you want to put them on. Just click and drag your selection and add to the basket. So simple!
Ask And Ye Shall Receive (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Say it like you have a speech impediment and you’ll get the idea. ‘ Oh goody ’ I thought to myself, ‘ a nice grown up blog to have a look at, this should be interesting ’. Now, take a seat, maybe get yourself a stiff drink or a hot sugary tea, for what I am about to say may shock you to your very core. I was wrong. Standard stuff first, decent template with plenty of writing space, dreadful navigation,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Hamburg - Joachim Haas' school years were a nightmare because of a speech impediment which led to him being ridiculed by his classmates. I was afraid. I experienced real panic at times, recalls Haas, 29, who is from Giessen in western Germany. ...
The Disco Mermaids (Robin - Jay (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
No, that is not a typo, and I don't have an Elmer Fudd speech impediment. FOW is the unofficial name of my monthly L.A. based kid-lit writers critique group. Judy Enderle and Stephanie Jacob Gordon started the group a few years back, when I was still "green" and silly and hopeful (and a really BAD writer, but that's a story for another day!). Okay, so I'm still silly and hopeful. But with the help...
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
A division of Random House pulled the plug on a work of fiction because of threats over its description of the lives of Muhammad's wives, and an expert on terrorism says the decision marks a significant advance in the Islamification of America, because "some Muslims now feel free to make threats of violence even in the U.S." Yes. Even in the US.The controversy over the book, "The Jewel of Medina,"...
