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May
10th
2010

Now playing: Emily Blunt’s speech at our 2009 Benefit Gala!

By AIS, 10:57 am

The 4th Annual Freeing Voices, Changing Lives gala is less than a month away! To celebrate the coming gala, we will start posting the honorees’ and clients’ speeches from last year’s event.

We lead with the first honoree of the evening, the beloved British actress, Emily Blunt! [embedded video below]

Last year’s gala made such an impact on Emily that she soon after joined our Board of Directors. And we’re thrilled to have her back to emcee this year’s gala! Thanks to Emily for continuing to support us in reaching people who stutter!

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May
3rd
2010

Who is a positive influence in your life in regards to stuttering?

By AIS, 4:16 pm

positive-influence

On our Facebook page, we posed this simple question:

Who has been a positive influence in your life in regards to stuttering?

We were so happy to see the encouraging responses from our Facebook community that we’d like to share a few here, like:

The National Stuttering Association, all glory goes to them!

In college it was two of my professors. In fact, I still keep in touch with them.

I received no speech therapy, so it has to great thanks to my parents, sisters, brother and teachers/classmates in childhood/teenage – they all respected me and teached to believe in myself, and thanks my own great will, which all people noticed.

Me! =)

We’d love to hear from our blog readers as well.

Who has been a positive influence in your life in regards to stuttering?

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