speech disorders

Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.

Nine-year-old Dora, who has been kept out of school because of her speech impediment, dreams of learning to speak normally as her family joins a group of other Mormons journeying from Utah to New Mexico in 1910.

In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece.

The author describes her stuttering disorder and her search for a cure. Discusses how she interviewed writers, musicians, social workers, and others who have speech difficulties; and changed her perception of what's normal.

Gerald, whose communication is in the form of clangs, toots, and blasts, distresses his parents and the kids at school.

Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.

The author, a stutterer, discusses his lifelong struggle to speak fluently, relating personal anecdotes about his fear of speaking out in class, his attempts to ask girls for a date, and his apprehension about reading to his children, and telling of the many therapies he tried to rid himself of the affliction.

Provides information and guidance on stuttering, discussing such topics as different types, triggers, and coping with the problem.

Examines the vital mechanisms of human communication, speech and hearing, through a discussion of the body's role in these functions.

Scheduled to go to summer camp to work on his stuttering problem while his parents go off to the Arctic, Lewis surreptitiously steals back into his house where he lives a secret life for eight weeks, meeting a new friend who is camping in a nearby woods and who involves Lewis in acting and a new approach to his speech problem and to life.