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Re: How did Joe Biden recover from stuttering without therapy?

From: tim mackesey, CCC-SLP, BRSFD
Date: 01 Oct 2012
Time: 19:15:29 -0500
Remote Name: 99.120.10.222

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Catholic nuns get significant credit for beginning his recovery. In People Magazine story immediately after The King's Speech movie Biden explained that nuns marked passages into phrases (fluency shaping). Once he integrated phrasing tempo they had him recite poetry in front of a mirror. In the People article a copy of a 2011 speech in Russia showed his phrase mark discipline he learned from the nuns. Joe gets credit for taking that cadence training and generalizing it.


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