Hard Talk: When Speech Is Difficult

A moving, patient-centered portrait of the social importance of speech, from a medical expert known for his humanizing explorations of health.

Language comes to us through culture, environment, and family. Words embed over time, as we use our minds to comprehend them and then our mouths to say, mean, and own them. Without the ability to speak, or when talking becomes difficult, we face a challenge like few others, forced to reconnect with a world that assumes its communicators are eloquent v...