'Speaking Out' - children with speech disorders

The King's Speech, this year's movie blockbuster, sensitively showed how a monarch was seriously affected by a speech disorder. Many children and young people also suffer from disabling speech disorders which can blight their lives, sometimes all their lives. The UK charity, Afasic (The Association for All Speech Impaired Children), exists to help and support them.

Some years ago, I was asked to write, direct and shoot a film to explain and promote the work of Afasic. More details about the charity can be found at http://www.afasic.org.uk. Their helpline is 0845 3 55 55 77.

'Speaking Out' - written and directed by Jon Danzig. © Jon Danzig Look-Hear.com MCMLXXXVII

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Afasic
• aphasia
• apraxia
• articulation disorders
• cluttering
• disarthria
• dyspraxia
• expressive language disorder
• lisps
• stammering
• voice disorders
• backing disorder
• rett syndrome
• speech
• speech impairment
• speech impediment
• language disorder
• children
• schoolchildren
• Jon Danzig
• Look-Hear
• Marie McCarthy
• Proffessor Michael Rutter
• Moor House School
• John Lea
• Elizabeth Browning

[pastyhead80]

great vid, i went to moor house school, left in 1994, wasthe best thing that has happened to me

[ghaaaad123456789]

good



[artbob90]

I attended Moor House School (left in 2006), this video was a great insight into how the methods in which we were taught topics, like social skills, were devised. Although this video was made a good 3 years before I was even born it can be clearly seen that the expert's ideas were clearly put into practice in my time in special education, and they worked :-) Thanks for posting this!