The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival has since ended, but while it was on, I was privileged to attend the movie BRAIN ON FIRE directed and written by Gerard Barret, produced by Charlize Theron, and starring the beautiful and very talented Chloë Grace Moretz....
According to the Human Footprint, a Nick Watt’s documentary from 2007, the average person speaks 4,300 words a day. We use our voice more often than we realize and it is easy to forget to take care of what seems to be our most valuable tool. As a speech-language...
Stuttering may seem like a serious impediment at first glance, but you’d be hard pressed to argue that people like Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, John Updike, and King George VI—who all stuttered—had their careers held back as a result. More recently,...
The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada (www.SpeechTherapyCentres.com), in light of the recent 20/20 interview on April 24 and upcoming Vanity Fair feature with Olympic gold medalist and celebrity Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is releasing a statement...
The voice is a fragile thing. Many people do not realize they need to take care of their voice the way they should take care of any other body part. This is especially important for singers, performers, or any other profession that relies on the use of the voice....
The brain is an intricate part of our body, which controls our communication, our thinking, our movements, our moods and our senses. Understanding the complex and delicate interplay of the different parts of the brain can be quite challenging, especially for those of...
