This anthology accompanies the film and features five essays about learning disabilities, linguistics, experimental film, the history of small gauge and perspectives on Phonetic Philmmaking. 
 
Rennie Taylor, on the Phonetic Philmmaking film: 
For as long as I can remember, it has been difficult and uncomfortable to express myself when speaking aloud or when writing. I would often silence myself to avoid the feeling that I was making a mistake, a word out of place or mispronounced, to avoid the embarrassment of repeating and having to clarify my thoughts. I have always lived with the disruption of language intertwined with my experience of living with a learning disability. Phonetic Philmmaking, a 20 minute experimental Super 8 film, satirizes normative language conventions and transforms them into a new visual vernacular linking metaphorical and literal meanings within the verbs, nouns and pictures. This film explains my world – if only I can find the right word.