Word of Mouth
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- Episode
- Speech Difficulties
- Broadcast Info
- 2025 (28 mins)
- Description
- Michael Rosen asks what happens to people’s sense of identity and social being when speaking becomes hard. Jonathan Cole has interviewed people with conditions such as cerebral palsy, vocal cord palsy, spasmodic dysphonia and post-stroke aphasia. They describe in their own words what the experience of not being able to express themselves is like, the frustration and isolation as well as the adaptation and resilience.
- Genre
- Literature; Language
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The Open University, "Word of Mouth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/254324 (Accessed 04 Apr 2026)