Why read Words Fail Us?

Book cover of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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'TIMELY' David Mitchell

'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES

'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers

'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin

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1 author picked Words Fail Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tony Sandy

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This book is a UK best seller. It deals with a variety of communication difficulties, including the author’s own stuttering. The only thing it doesn’t really cover is literacy, occasionally mentioning it, which is my only beef with it. Problems like aphasia caused by strokes, where words are forgotten or where words are slurred as in degenerative brain disease are well covered as are autism and Tourette's syndrome, which isn’t all swearing but includes tics. He also asks do we need to be hyper-fluent in speech as some people are and mentions ways people try to disguise their disability. He…

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