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Don't take speech for granted. Kit Roberts knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way. When she moved to Alaska in 1976, she worked with indigenous Alaskans who were just finding their voices after being silenced for generations. She never imagined the odyssey that her career as a speech-language pathologist would undergo for the next 31 years. In her memoir, Frozen Voices: A Speech Therapist's Alaskan Memoir, Kit invites her readers to experience the beauty, adventures, and challenges she faced in The Last Frontier to help others to speak. As she guided others to find their voices, she slowly recovered her own.

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"""I enjoyed every page of this book! It felt like I was right there with her in the outback of Alaska, facing the adventures and trials of traveling from village to village. I had no idea how much I did not know about Alaska. And it was a revelation to learn how speech therapy can open the doors to education for children, and change the lives of adults."" Melinda Bessett, Business Analyst ""Highly recommend as an enthralling, informative read through the life experiences of a brilliant woman ....only in Alaska!"" HDD, Parent, nurse, educator and proud Alaskan "" An incredibly engaging memoir, with short and easy to digest chapters illustrated by personal photographs, which invite the reader to join the author on her journey! As a student from the UK, it was particularly interesting to read about her work with the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Her care, compassion, and conviction to provide the very best therapy for her clients shines through on every page, and I thoroughly enjoyed the read from start to finish."" Toby Parsonage, SLT Student This book analyzes Johnson's growth the way she does with her pupils. The narrative of her travels is interwoven with a deeply personal storyline as Johnson unpacks the struggles she must overcome to ""find her voice."" Frozen Voices is as much a memoir as it is an ode to Alaska, with a deep appreciation of the place and people on every page. Nome Nugget"

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Kit Roberts Johnson is an accomplished speech-language pathologist. She spent 31 years of her career honing her profession in Alaska, flying to isolated villages, and opening the largest private speech clinic in state history at the time. In her memoir, Frozen Voices, A Speech Therapist's Alaskan Memoir, Kit invites her readers to experience the adventures and challenges she faced in The Last Frontier.

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