Speech disorders
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 21:22
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Seven years of speech therapy and I still slip up sometimes. There's a whole host of words I try to avoid just in case.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
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Originally posted by boris:
oooh...I am just about to start dealing with stroke patients and elderly people with swallowing difficulty etc in a prac block.I'm looking forward to it on a lot of levels but know I'll see some things that will be hard to process. It is a hard career morally and ethically but I have years of experience in disabilities to draw on. I hope your wife finds it rewarding despite the heartaches.
When my Mom was in the nursing home last year she had a fantastic speech therapist that helped her with her swallowing. Some of her throat muscles and nerves had been destroyed by radiation for neck cancer.
I have a Southern accent but add to that an inability to do TH's very well when I talk fast. I had therapy for it as a child and thought I'd conquered it but it's been resurfacing recently. I did recover from my L problem....ie See the yittle yady. Yeah! Speech pathologists!
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