According to Salon.com, the King's Speech does an excellent job of "address[ing] the complex difficulties of one man's speech, the inner silences that tortured a proud man" but may of mislead viewers as to the treatment of stuttering.

The article explains that "Despite the language of "The King's Speech" and the words of many of the film reviewers, there is no cure for stuttering. We know that the stutter is not caused by an emotional trigger, yet the cause of stuttering remains a mystery rooted in the machinery of translating our thoughts into a set of complex bodily movements. Genetic and neurological research continues and speech therapy remains a journey into the unknown, hopefully with someone you trust."

Salon does acknowledge that historical representation in fiction is not meant to instruct on current theraputic intervention and gives the movie high points stating that, "What ultimately redeems "The King's Speech," however, is the way it uses stuttering as a metaphor for human struggle. For the full article go to: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2011/02/21/kings_sp...