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Synopsis

Open Door is a community-based TV series where groups or individuals make a documentary about an issue that concerns them. This episode is about the Stuttering Treatment and Research Trust, or START. The documentary interviews high profile Kiwis who have learned to control their stutters - Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft, TV host and public speaker Ian Grant, former All Black Royce Willis, and unionist and political adviser Matt McCarten. Speech experts and the parents of young stutterers seeking treatment at START also feature.

Credits (3)

 Trevor Conn

Trevor Conn
Director

 Shirlie Fairbrother

Shirlie Fairbrother
Producer

 Drew Watkins

Drew Watkins
Narrator

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Quotes

To ask a question in class would be one of the most terrifying things on earth for me. 

– Stutterer and former All Black Royce Willis

One teacher, when I left school, said to my parents that there’d be three things that Andrew would never do - the church, the law, or teaching. 

– Stutterer and Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft

It took me a few years before I found START, and that fixed it just like that, because for the first time in my life I understood what the problem was, and then I was given the tools to overcome my stutter. 

– Stutterer and politcal adviser Matt McCarten