International Stuttering Awareness Day
22 October was
designated International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) in 1998. The day is
intended to raise the public awareness of the millions of people who have the
speech disorder of stuttering, including over 3 million Americans.
Birthdays
Sir Derek George
Jacobi, is an English actor and film director. Jacobi has enjoyed a highly
successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle
Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in
Much Ado About Nothing. His stage work also included playing Edward II,
Octavius Caesar, Richard III, and Cyrano de Bergerac
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Doris May
Lessing (born 22 October 1919) is a British novelist, poet, playwright,
librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is
Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of
Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and
five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983)
The ISA seeks to improve the conditions of all those whose lives are affected by stuttering in all countries by among other things:
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Helping to develop the self-help movement in countries around the world.
Assisting in communication among people who stutter, parents of children who stutter, and therapists and researchers from all disciplines.
Educating the general public about stuttering.
Promoting co-operation between national and international organizations of people who stutter, such as the European League of Stuttering Associations (ELSA), and other international organizations, such as the International Fluency Association (IFA).
Publishing a newsletter at least once a year and maintaining a website.
Doris Mary Lessing - Quotes
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“Intelligence barred . . . quarrelling, sulking, anger, silences of withdrawal, accusations and tears. Above all, intelligence forbids tears.”
Doris Lessing, “To Room Nineteen”
Knowledge and Learning
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”
Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City
International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) was launched 10 years ago to promote awareness and understanding and to exhibit recognition for people who stutter and the speech-language professionals who work with them. At the annual World Demonstration at noon on that day, people across the world are inspired to start a conversation about stuttering. Since 1998, ISAD has assisted in bringing information and help to persons who stutter, their near and dear ones and the people who serve them, and has helped change public concept about stuttering.
ReplyDeleteStuttering is a speech malfunction in which syllables, sounds, or words are repeated or prolonged, hindering the instant flow of speech, as said by the National Institute on deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). This can virtually make communication tough and disturb that person’s everyday life.
Each year on 22nd October this day is celebrated. It offers people who stutter a window of opportunity to make aware the people at large about their impediment. Speech therapists, groups associated to the International Stuttering Association, family members and other individuals who associate and help people who stutter can also participate in the process.
ISAD is Run by Four Organizations:
- International Fluency Association
- European League of Stuttering Associations
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Special Interest Division, Fluency & Fluency Disorders
- International Stuttering Association
Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other). Modest and unassuming in nature, Jacobi's firm place in theatre history centers around his fearless display of his characters' more unappealingly aspects, their great flaws, eccentricities and, more often than not, their primal torment.
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"I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out".
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
"I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!"
"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that".
Persian (Iranian)-born British writer, whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people caught in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. Central themes in Lessing's work are feminism, the battle of the sexes, individuals in search of wholeness, and the dangers of technological and scientific hubris. Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Since 1949, she has lived in England but she is also considered an African writer because she grew up and was educated in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia).
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