My Experience With Speech Disorder

When I was in elementary school, it was discovered that I had issues with communication and was unable to properly form sounds and letters. It was difficult for me to understand the material in my classes and I ended up falling behind my other peers. Eventually, it got to the point where the school had to think about holding me back. At this point a teacher of mine stepped in and suggested I try speech therapy. Once it was realized that I had a communication problem, the school decided there was no reason to hold me back. My speech disorder, however, was not a simple fix.

The speech therapy session that I observed was in the Healthstar Pediatric Rehab and Home Health, was on July 15th, 2015 and the name of the speech therapist was Audrey and the child who was eleven years old and his name was Brett. The type of speech impairment is non-verbal, the child can only say “mom”. The focus of the therapy session were answering yes/no questions and reviewing his words with an electronic device for example, his name, his age, his words, for example, transportation. He was reviewing the word “boat, helicopter, fire truck, motorcycle, car, bus, dump truck”. The therapist was showing him the colorful big card with the pictures on it and she was sorting the matching cards, showing him the card at one time with one image

The opportunity to observe the work overview of a Speech Pathologist, has tremendously solidified my interest in this field. At the Diana Rogovin Speech Center at Brooklyn College, I observed clients of various ages with different speech language disorders including articulation, language, voice, fluency and accent modification. Observing clinicians at the speech center gave me the opportunity to learn how important client-clinician interaction is for the session and how essential it is to build a good relationship with the client. Although I learned the

When I was a toddler my parents discovered that I could not form words the way most children do. I was capable of making sounds, but I could never communicate my thoughts fully. After a visit to the doctor, they decided I had childhood apraxia of speech. Many children are diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech, and with therapy they can learn to speak like children unaffected by apraxia. After my therapy I spoke the same way all of my classmates spoke, but I still had shy tendencies that would often get the better of me. I began taking dance lessons, and a few years later I began auditioning for community theatre. After not getting cast in multiple productions, I finally had a chance to be in a musical. I quickly fell in love with theatre

“One day you’ll find your voice”, my mom would always tell me. I was never very sure that I would when I was younger. I was shy, insecure and feared confrontation, but everything started to change in December of 2012.

When I first started school I did not have the easiest time, when I was young I had dyslexia and this made it extremely hard for me to keep up with everyone else and since I was always working behind everyone else I had a hard time making friends. I would always get special treatment to help me but I never wanted it, I always felt embarrassed and I just wanted to be like everybody else but it was years before I got that, there were multiple occasions where I would go to bed not knowing if I would be able to stay in my school or have to start all over again somewhere else. So the early part of my schooling was extremely complicated and full of hardship, but this time in my life was necessary to make me the person I’m today, I learned so much

For my Deaf event, I went to a show at Brynn Mawr College called “Two by Twain and a Show of Hands” presented by the Nation Theatre of the Deaf. The show was separated into two acts with about five different types of skits. In Act I, A Show of Hands, the actors hid behind a curtain and stuck their hands out to sign jokes and stories. This part was a little confusing for me because they were mostly signing and at that point in the class, I was not as good as understanding the language as I am now. After this part, the actors told stories, fables, poems, puns, and more. The second act, Two by Twain, consisted of even more poems and short stories, including “The Story of the McWilliamses” and “Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightening.” For some acts,

For as long as I remember, I was a quiet child. I did my assigned tasks, followed direction well, was respectful, and a great listener. Somewhere along the line I became an even better listener, for the price of my voice. As if time was in a limbo, I was just drifting along, going with the flow, and before I knew it, I wasn't able to talk.

tone. Speaking in monotone puts your audience to sleep. This can happen to anyone who

What type and severity of communicative disorder did the client exhibit? He has mild articulation disorder. Because he is a multilingual child. He speaks English, Arabic, and Turkish, so his mother wonder that his writing and reading skills are kind of weak. (number1)

Throughout the years, my stutter slowly became more prominent. Tasks such as reading a paragraph out loud in class became extremely stressful. I wanted to be able to effectively express my words to people. However, no matter how hard I wanted to, speaking just became

Growing up with my cousins I was always made the outsider because I did not speak the same way they did. They would always say I sound “white” or I was “too proper.” So I began to adapt to the way they spoke because as a kid it bothered me that my family made fun of me for the way I spoke but now I realize it was a blessing that I did not speak the same way as they did. I don’t want to sound uneducated or illiterate just because it was normal in Alabama. Around my friends and in Georgia I would speak how I normally spoke but when I would go to Alabama I would speak totally different. As a kid I never realized that there

In the Tianyin tingzhang rehabilitation school, the kids there all have the difficulties with dysaudia. They are all taking the hearing-aid with them. I was being distributed to the group that take charge of the small kids, which I was really wishing that. But I was very nervous before I got into the room. What if they don’t like me? What can we play together? To my surprise, as I entered the room, a kid called Wang Bin, ran to me and hug me with a smiling face. Suddenly, my worry seemed unnecessary. We played games and ate snacks together. He sat on my lap and told me about his life intermittently. I realized there are no no differences between them and other kids, their smile are even more sweet and adorable. Also, there inner world are more

According to Goldstein et al, other studies have demonstrated how adults perceive mature vocalization as a means of communication thus resulting in an increased response from the adult (Goldstein et al, 2003, 8034). Therefore, as children begin to articulate more maturely, parents in return respond more in hopes to increase the performance of mature vocalization by the child.

Although I have my own idiolect, the way I speak constantly changes. This is because I try to adapt my spoken language to suit the situation I am in. There are many reasons for why I try to adapt my spoken language some of the main reasons being that I am fearful of the judgements and perceptions that others may make because of the way I speak also being afraid of exclusion or not being able to fit in and sometimes I feel pressurised into speaking in a certain way.