The Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences is sponsoring a free movie screening of the award winning documentary, "MY BEAUTIFUL STUTTER" from Executive Producers Paul Rudd & George Springer. This event will take place in the Dodd Center - Konover Auditorium on Wednesday, March 4th 2020 at 12:00 pm. Film length approx 90 mins. Event is open to the entire UConn community.
For details about the film and a preview, please visit: https://www.mybeautifulstutter.com/
RSVP is required. Seating is limited. Email SLHS@UConn.edu
RSVP - Please include the names of all guests for whom you are sending an RSVP.
About the Film:
In MY BEAUTIFUL STUTTER, five kids ages 9-18, from all over the United States, enter experimental, interactive and arts-based programs at SAY, The Stuttering Association for the Young. After a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, some have found themselves close to suicide, others enter SAY withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from fluency training and the pressure to not stutter or remain silent. Over the course of a year, we witness firsthand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: It's okay to stutter.
Quick Facts:
- 1 in 20 children stutter
- Many will stutter for life, facing bullying, stigmatization, emotional and sometimes physical violence, all at the hands of classmates, teachers, family members and society at large.
- Many hide, shut down, rigorously work toward fluency, or develop tricks to mask their stutter. Some, driven to despair, attempt to take their own lives.
For more information, contact: Sirrah Galligan at slhs@uconn.edu