Frozen Voices: A Speech Therapist's Alaskan Memoir

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by Kit Roberts Johnson

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When a speech therapist leaves the familiar for the Alaskan Arctic, she finds herself navigating language, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. Her life in Alaska was unimaginable. The landscape itself was daunting and awesome. The harshness and the beauty were juxtaposed, just like her career. But nothing could stop her. An inner spirit took control and spurred her on to untold adventures and achievements. Her main desire was to bring help to the people who needed it the most, no matter what hardship she faced. Kit Roberts Johnson 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 at the age of 26, 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. "I LOVE this book - I didn't want it to end. I can't believe the depth and breadth of Kit's life and adventures. The one constant is her solid core of compassion ." Leslie Mansfield, Author, The Lewis & Clark Cookbook, Historic Recipes From The Corps of Discovery & Jefferson's America "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 ." The Nome Nugget 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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