How Does The King's Speech Tell The Nature Of Stuttering

The King’s Speech is the story of King George VI (Bertie’s) struggle to overcome his speech impediment and become the king that no one believed he could be. In the beginning, Bertie is known as the Duke of York, he works with many different speech therapists to help him with his stammering, all being unsuccessful. It is Bertie’s wife, the Duchess of York who finds Doctor Lionel Logue. Lionel is a bit unorthodox in his techniques such as having his patients sing, listen to loud music through headphones while reading aloud, and encouraging them to curse while speaking. Bertie becomes frustrated when he thinks nothing is working so he gives up on the first day with Lionel. It is not until he listens to the recording of himself speaking perfectly that he realizes Lionel can help him. With the help of Lionel’s unorthodox therapy Bertie becomes able to speak to his county in their time of need and gains a lifelong friend.

King's speaking ability increasingly improved over time. At the time, No one knew that attribute would propel him to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.

After 60 years of stuttering, Hoagland reminisces about his struggles and triumphs to overcome his stuttering. While attending school, he learned that, “Life can become a matter of measuring the importance of anything you have to say.” He felt that it was

His conversations are limited with strangers; it is only with close friends and family that Hoagland is able to hold a clear and fluid discussion. His handicap was a factor of low self confidence. Furthermore, some of his scariest moments as a stutterer were as a father when his daughter was learning to speak and thought that she was supposed to stutter, and also when he had to have to give a speech at a wedding. Nonetheless, Hoagland refused to let his stuttering control his life. He is able to get in to the Army by telling them that he only stuttered because he was “nervous,” and even goes on to become a college professor.

It was interesting to contrast Bertie’s self-perception to the manner in which his stuttering was perceived by those around him. In a few instances, Bertie mentions that his stuttering has always been particularly difficult when speaking with his father and older brother. In one of the few scenes with King George V, the King is seen as being extremely strict with Bertie. While he initially tries to encourage Bertie by stating public speaking is a matter of practice, this attempt at encouragement rapidly devolved into openly berating Bertie. Almost immediately upon sitting down, the King instructed Bertie to sit up straight, to “get it out”, and even at one point angrily tells his son to “relax.” A second scene involved Bertie stating that his brother, Edward, was prone to mocking his stuttering and was even encouraged to do so by their father. As adults, Edward resorts to mocking Bertie when faced with criticism. Given the negative attitudes of his family members towards his stuttering, it is understandable that these attitudes contributed so

The research completed by Li, Arnold, & Beste-Guldborg presented an investigation in the perception of protective service workers toward people who stutter (PWS), and whether these perceptions are similar among non-protective service workers. This article provided an interesting dichotomy between those that would be providing assistance in many different situations and those who would perhaps be requesting the assistance or needing to explain their actions. They hypothesized that protective service workers—defined as law enforcement, fire fighters, customs officials, private investigatros, and interestingly, lifeguards, among others—would show a difference in attitudes of PWS, in comparison to the general population, which could potentially

The Stutterer Story was written by Dr. Frederick Murray. He tells about his life growing up as a stutter and his experience with other people. Dr. Murray describes his most difficult times and how living with this type of disorder has affected him. The purpose of this essay is to outline the life of Dr. Murray in his stuttering as well as expressing my own reflection on how others might view stutterers.

At the beginning of the movie, “The King’s Speech,” Prince Albert, the Duke of York, also known as “Bertie”, was giving a speech and stammering throughout the entire presentation. Throughout his lifetime, Prince Albert claimed that he had always had a stuttering problem and did not have progress or success with a variety of treatments. His wife, Elizabeth, persuades Prince Albert to visit a speech therapist that she had met. In the beginning of the movie, he did not want to meet the therapist because he had ineffective treatments. Finally, Elizabeth persuaded Prince Albert to visit and meet Lionel Logue.

While the person in question happens to have been an English monarch, his trepidations and fears are no different from any public speaking student that Mr. Logue encountered over the years. So, Logue treats Bertie as though he were a regular, stuttering child and expects him to adhere to the same rules as everyone else. This is also a movie about education, as much as it is about politics and royalty. “Turn the hesitations into pauses,” Logue tells the King in one scene. “Bounce into it.” Rather than force his student into a mold, the teacher lets the student be the guide. He turns the awkwardness into something better; he re-defines the terms on which the King’s Speech was

The judges were made up of 14 people who stutter, 14 SLPs (Speech Language Pathologists) and 14 naïve listeners. A 9-point scale was used to rate the naturalness of speakers who do and do not stutter. The three judging groups varied greatly in how severely they judged the speech samples. The naïve judges were the most critical while the people who stutter were the least critical. All groups agreed that the slower the speech rate was the more unnatural the speech was perceived. In reference to the control group of the non-stutters all groups perceived the non-stutters to sound more

Yaruss (2004) explains that the speech characteristics of stuttering include disfluencies such as whole-word repetitions (“I-I-I like that”), part-word repetitions (“wa-wa-want this”), sound prolongations (“lllllistening”), and blocks (“l—ike this”). These types of disfluencies are often called “atypical” or

In The King’s Speech there were definitely more than three ways he tried to overcome his issues. In the film it becomes apparent that King George VI had a stuttering problem making it incredibly difficult to get his thoughts across. He has always known himself to stutter which makes it difficult when someone of his stature has to do a lot of public speaking.

The King was very disgusted when he heard of the news that the South African government said to only shake hands with the whites in Africa. The stress of this war was starting to take a toll on George’s health and well being. On the 12th of March the king was up for an operation to remove a thrombosis on his right leg. A planned tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed due to the operation the king was having during this time. After the operation was finished it threatened to have his right ler removed. With the news of this George’s daughter heiress presumptive took on a lot more royal duties. The originally delayed tour of Australia and New Zealand was reorganized by Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh taking the place of the king and queen. The king eventually healed up enough to open the Festival of Britain but shortly after there was a tumor found in his right lung which ultimately ended up with him having to get that lung removed. The lung was removed by Clement Thomas Price. In 1951 the king’s daughter and her husband took a trip to Canada. Which is where they stayed for a month, but it was originally delayed again because of the king’s health. At the state opening of parliament the king’s speech was read for him while he satin the throne because he couldn’t read the speech himself. It was read by Lord Simmons and then again in Christmas when the king usually broadcasted a speech he had to do the speeches in

He speculates after he is dead, David (Edward VIII) will ruin himself in 12 months. His father is impatient with him and barks at him to relax, take his time, and do it! Bertie later plays the recording given to him by Lionel and hears the flawless reading. The next scene Bertie and Elizabeth are back in Lionel’s office to negotiate his treatment. They ask Lionel to concentrate on the mechanics of the stammer and avoid “personal nonsense”. Lionel disagrees and says dealing with the mechanics is only dealing with the surface of the problem. Bertie asks Lionel to assist with minor events and they arrange to meet every day. Lionel uses unexpected techniques and after revealing some of his childhood pressures they develop a friendship. The film shows several exercises and speeches with the King and jumps ahead to 1936. King George the V is dying and both Bertie and David have been summoned to their father. David complains that his father dying complicates things with is mistress, Miss Wallace Simpson. He makes his mother’s guest wait for dinner while he is on the phone with his mistress. King George V dies that night and Edward VIII becomes King, he says “now I’m trapped”. Bertie meets with Lionel and opens up about the passing of his father and reveals intimate details of his life. He tells that his father’s last words were “Bertie has more guts than the rest of his brothers put together”. Additionally,

Academy award winning film, The King’s Speech, is a motivational movie where voice and courage become a matter of life and death. Prince Albert, later known as King George VI (Colin Firth), stammers excessively and uncontrollably through his inaugural speech closing the 1925 British Empire Exhibition due to a speech impediment. After finishing such a disappointing speech, Prince Albert decides to give up on himself and accept his fate as a stammering heir to the throne. However, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), enlists him to see an Aussie speech therapist that goes by the name of Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) whose “Antipodean methods are known to be ‘unorthodox’ and ‘controversial,’” (“The King’s