Loud Writing Challenges

I woke up my clothes ripped, freezing. I had no idea where I was till a loud screaming noise was near. I was trying not to make any sudden movements to attract more predators. I was laying still on the leaves when all of the sudden I heard what sounded like a bobcat coming closer and closer thinking it had heard me or was coming to attack me. When it went right past me attacking another prey.

Everybody has many experiences when growing up. We absorb an amazing amount of information and learn many skills in that time. During this time, our skills develop, and we may succeed in some areas or be unsuccessful in others. This idea could be applied to myself, which includes the ability to properly speak, a struggle with writing, and a surprising success in reading.

My parents enrolled me in speech therapy where, five times a week, I would be taken out of class to practice "rolling my R's" and participate in various other activities with a speech therapist. I had no reservations about talking with a therapist, but the extent to which I had to meet with her became strenuous.

As a child, I was faced with a lot of adversity. My grandmother raised my brothers and me. We lived on government assistance with little money and no car for transportation for extracurricular activities. The hardships we faced compelled me at a young age to stay in school, go to college, and make something of myself because I did not want to live a life limiting my dreams and opportunities. Throughout my academic career, there was not a specific moment that solidified my desire to pursue a profession in Speech- Language Pathology (SLP); instead, there were numerous. I initially became interested in this profession after learning how a child’s dysfluency was able to significantly improve. The gradual process of a client making substantial improvements

Pamela Quick was my speech teacher in elementary school. Apparently I struggled in every subject especially reading and writing. At a young age, I knew reading or writing didn’t come easy to me and I didn’t understand why. Before I started kindergarten, my parents were told that I had a reading efficiency. So because of that, I was introduced

Through my experiences, I have demonstrated a strong ability to incorporate critical thinking skills into playful and engaging sessions for my past clients. As a SLP, I will be able to further implement my problem solving skills, and provide superb and effective strategies to those who suffer from communication disorders. I intend to help all my clients reach their fullest potential and aim on guiding them with an invigorating view to improve and further develop, both socially and academically. Through my solid linguistic background and bilingualism, I can further apply my thorough understanding of the subareas of language (morphology, phonetics, etc.) into the discipline of communication disorders. With academic knowledge and first-hand experience in conjunction, I have received a holistic education that has prepared me for entry into the master’s program. I know that my journey will not be easy in the following years, as it has not in the past, and that there will be many overcoming barriers ahead. However, just as I have never done before, I will not give up! With perseverance, dedication and faith in God, I know that I will

As a child growing up, I never really enjoyed reading or was ever good at it on my own. I never could understand the words and what they were trying to say in a story. I was able to read the words but putting them together was always tough for me. Whenever my teachers would ask me to summarize what I read, I would panic and break down greatly. I never could remember what I was reading after I had read it to myself or even aloud. This always caused a great amount of stress for me, especially having to read aloud to the class. I was never good at reading aloud and always felt so embarrassed to do so. I would despise going to class because I always seemed to get called on to read aloud the most. In elementary school we would get taken out of class

Adults may require a Speech-Language Therapist’s (SLT’s) services for a number of reasons. Certain injuries and medical conditions create communication disorders, which may hamper a person’s self esteem and be very hard to surmount alone. No matter what your age is, we are trained to help rebuild the mental and physical components of language after injury, as well as to provide caring support as you progress through the challenges of rehabilitation. Several areas of difficulty are more commonly the cause for an adult to reach out for support from a SLT – these are briefly reviewed below.

Since around the first grade I had been going to speech therapy for a severe speech impediment, in my case, commonly called "block" stuttering, and was told one of my main "triggers" was speaking to an audience. I was 12 years old. That day I was to tell my English class about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; I knew it front ways and back ways, no problem. As I approached the front of the room, one hand held with a couple of note cards, the other clenched tightly in fear. I had not told my teacher of my problem as I had in years past, excusing me from certain situations such as this. I had vowed to finally face this no matter what. I looked out at about thirty of my peers and started to speak, glanced at a note card and stopped. I did not stop

As documented in this study, there have been many intense studies for over the past three decade on struggling readers lacking phonological awareness. Being a struggling reader can lead to their low academic performance in core subject areas like Math and English may lead them to develop low self-esteem to the point where they stop believing in their capabilities. This often leads to learn helplessness which is a

I am a 10 grader and as days go by school keeps getting harder than my ninth grade year but for me it's interesting to enroll many new challenging things like in english we can peruse many types of writing. I had to really challenge myself on reading it was gonna be difficult but i had to overcome it why? well because reading is not my passion or hobby i don't enjoy reading unless its a 100% attractive book. For example the book i read 5 times and only was “The Fault In Our Stars” it was a good amusing book. Other challenges i had was Reading the goldfish story i didn't really understand i had to go back to it that book really confused me.

Growing up I didn’t ever struggle with reading or writing. However, I always felt anxious and fretful when I was chosen to read aloud in class. It wasn’t that I was bad at reading, it was more that I would make a simple error and kids would laugh or think poorly of me. As an adult looking back I am sure that most of my classmates felt the same way. When I begin to teach this is something I think creates more stress

Before I started school, I attended speech therapy to try to fix my inability to make certain words come out like I wanted them to. I joined public speaking in school to further

As I continue to get older, and I reach new learning points within my education, I found myself still struggling with pronunciation, which started to crucially affect my vocabulary and spelling skills. I found myself growing a hatred for speaking and writing, thus public speaking or reading out loud for classes became a tedious task. I found myself doing poorly on my elementary spelling and reading test, and in middle school, I had

This brings me to elementary school. At this point in school my teachers wanted every kid to start reading out loud. I did not like this at all. Why? Well, because my issues with speaking make it hard for me to form words while reading out loud without needing the help of the teachers. This gave the kids around me a reason to make fun of me. This its self-made me hate reading. Ultimately my teachers did everything in their power just to get me to love reading but that involved reading out loud as well. So, I crafted up a plan of my own. That plan was for me to read aloud at home; I would sit in my room and read almost anything until I felt comfortable with reading aloud. Shockingly it worked wonders. By the time I hit the sixth grade I no longer had speech classes and I was comfortable with reading out loud, but I refused to volunteer to read.