Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110212:21:44:00
>> it was really -- i want to thank the public school system where i grew up at middletown, ohio. they provided free therapists for me every year through grade school. and also just some wonderful people in my community. my own family, folks in the community. i had a speech mentor, fred ross, a local lawyer, who grew up with a stutter himself and never had any therapy. he was my coach and a speech contest i was in in the ninth grade i stuttered all the way through. a year later i reentered it. under his coaching, he said come on, you can do this and i walked away with the second prize trophy. ...