The Way We Talk with Mike Turner (LIVE #53)
Transcending Stuttering with Mike Turner
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“And as far as I’ve come, it’s like when I stutter in front of someone still, I don’t know, and like lose control. Like I’m kind of right back there in my eight year old self, you know, it’s like that feeling is always right on the surface that like I’ve messed up or that like, I’m not, you know, or like, which does wrong.”
NOTES
0:00-9:00- opening, stuttering is like a river
9:00-18:00- reading "Stuttering is like River" and reflections around it; naming the ghost/monster
18:00- 24:00- stuttering openly and knowing what that feels like
24:00-57:14- taking the risk; successes and failures in life; staying connected; reflections on family with movie
57:14-1:07:32 -closing remarks
GUEST BIO
Michael Turner is the creator of The Way We Talk, an award-winning autobiographical documentary that has screened around the world and contributed toward a paradigm shift in how stuttering is perceived. His second feature, Monument, about memory, memorialization, and meaning, is currently in production. He lives with his wife and daughter in rural Oregon.
RESOURCES & LINKS
HOST BIO
Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech; creator of Transcending Stuttering Academy and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.