#speechie

[transparentlyfallingasleep]

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

[talk2meandyou]

DLD Project - The National Campaign

The DLD Project is an organisation that works to raise awareness around Developmental Language Disorders and provide recourses, education and support for children affected. DLD causes difficulties with speaking and understanding language for seemingly unclear reasons. Signs within children that may have DLD may include:

Difficulty learning new words

Difficulty using language to express thoughts

Starting to speak later than their peers

Using short, simple terms

Difficulty telling a story in order and including details

Difficulty answering questions

Difficulty learning and remembering new information

Appearing to be distracted

Having trouble writing and reading

Struggling to join conversations

Difficulty following instructions

1 in 14 people in Australia have DLD, so it is imperative for us to understand and learn more about it. The DLD project offers free recourses on their website to help spread evidence-based information and ways to support people affected by DLD. Funding form these projects also go towards DLD research initiatives and advocacy.

To find out more about the DLD Project, please go to: https://thedldproject.com

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What is Auditory Processing?

Mrs Speechie P

[unreal-unearthed]

i think hozier could really benefit from dating a speech pathologist.

and before anyone starts i’m not just saying that because i-

[felitomkinson]

finally caught up with some stuff that Everyone Online has been raving about. i have so much to say about so many things and younger, naive lil’ ol’ me would be. but i will let my silence speak instead, wisdomfulluly, for it is the mouth through which the fish dies and is then turned into delicious sashimi. and in this lifetime i choose to be the bear. NOT the salmon. even though i wanna be glub glubbing so very vocally and cartoonishly right now. but i mustn’t. i cannoteth…

[ejzah]

Quotes from my kids today:

First quote:

Student: Were we supposed to be late today?

Me: Because it was icy outside.

Student: Do we have to be late every day now?

Second quote

Student: You’re like seven feet tall.

Third quote

Student practicing his speech sounds: I’m eating the bus.

Me, acting outraged: Then how are you going to get to school?

Student: And I ate your car.

Me: I guess Miss E can’t come to school anymore.

Student, delighted: You have to stay at the school forever. And I ate Miss E!

[ssaalexblake]

I had the dumbest interaction & I had to share this with someone who has had the same problem -

Apparently people flat out missed how at the end of Flux 13 was told she was going to die? I mentioned to someone that 13 comes off as someone with a terminal illness in LotSD & got "where are you getting this terminal illness stuff from?" & it is LITERALLY IN THE TEXT.

I get annoyed at people missing really obvious subtext but how do people miss THE LITERAL TEXT? One of the complaints people have about the chibnall Era is people turning to the camera to metalize, but then they somehow miss literal major plot elements that are spoken to the camera?! Like, the heck?

it's like how people like to rip 13's line out of the timeless children out of context, where she ~apparently~ deliberately tries to insult and degrade him so she can cruelly kick him while he's down like a big 'ole meanie she is by saying she's better than him, and conveniently ignore the other half of her SENTENCE where she says 'you think that makes me lesser' like she does not explicitly state that she thinks he's degrading HER, not the other way around, and that this explicitly informs the dynamics in their entire relationship, this entire episode, which is not even to mention that entire scene???

I know the man has gorgeous wet cat anime eyes at that part but we really need to watch the rest of the scene :/

I have a complex where i have to go back and rewatch bits if i'm gonna talk about it to check i've not made a memory error most of the time, so i'm like... okay. Shout this stuff out with your whole chests while not remembering very important plot points. Sure. I'll go back to compulsively script checking and cross referencing with the closed captions provided on the screen.

(literally looked up the scene in ttc to write this answer i s2g)

And i'm gonna be honest, most of the time now whenever i see somebody complain that everything in 13's era is just spelled out to the audience, i just assume the very obvious subtext and basically anything Not said out loud (which is, honestly, a lot of things) sailed over their heads bc ironically they actually Needed to be told it to understand, and therefore think that everything that happened was spelled out for them. This is not very charitable of me at all, but it's been years and i'm very tired now.

[ancient-string]

There should be voice affirming therapy for things other than gender.

Like, I am unhappy with the way my voice sounds because to my ears it sounds childish. Even when I have my “professional” voice on, I listen back and hear “that’s a literal child”.

Give me affirming therapy to sound like a fucking adult.

[thepals]

Aster has banned me from speaking in the moment, for good reasons, but as a talkative person this is AGONYYYYY (Me knowing it will see this soon LMAO)

[talk2meandyou]

Myths vs Facts about Speech Disorders

Myth 1: "Children who don't speak clearly are just lazy"

Fact: Uhmm...no. It's easy to have that conception when you encounter a child who can say the 'k' sound in the word 'kite' but doesn't say it when saying the 'k' sound in the word 'biscuit'.

However, children with phonological speech disorders have difficulty in using sounds in the correct way, even if they are able to produce these sounds on their own. They would know these sounds, but have trouble putting it in the right parts of a word.

Myth 2: "A child's persistent stutter is nothing to worry about, all children can grow out of a stutter"

Fact: It is a reasonable cause for concern when children over the age of 4 have a persistent stutter, even more if other people cannot understand them. If parents ignore this and choose to "wait it out", the child's stutter may actually persist and become harder to eliminate or manage as they grow older. Also, it may put the child at risk of facing bullying, poorer peer relationships, and lower academic achievement.

Even if a 'friend of a friend' or a 'colleague of mine' might've had a stutter when they were younger and outgrew it, Congrats! but it still does mean the same for everyone. There is no harm in having an assessment and seeking the help of a qualified speech pathologist.

Myth: "People with speech disorders are intellectually disabled"

Fact: In the brain, your speech parts work separately from the cognition parts - meaning, one does not necessarily depend on the other. People of varying intelligence can have speech disorders, just because someone has a stutter does not mean they are less intelligent than someone who does not have a stutter.

Speech disorders may make it more difficult to convey that intelligence, but no one's cognition should be discounted for the way they talk.

Myth: "You should always tell a person with a stutter to 'take a breath', 'slow down', and think before they speak"

Fact: A big NO. These remarks are less helpful than you think, and may actually cause more stress and anxiety for the person, which in turn makes the stuttering first. It's important to remember that stuttering is not a conscious thing, and it's not something to continuously point out, it does no favours for anyone.

A more helpful response would be waiting patiently for the person to speak and giving them the room to say what they need.

[unreal-unearthed]

on one hand i need the uni semester to end sooner rather than later but then the thought of returning to my 9-5 more than two days a week is the most horrifying shit ever do NOT make me do that.

[colourfulplague]

Speechy

[ejzah]

Me every time I note a possible tongue tie and get it right:

[estefa2190]

Meeting my new bestie

[seeingfacesinplaces]

A big problem surrounding issues like this is poor judgement on womens part, and that’s not to say women have bad judgement but rather we’re cornered from all sides throughout life and told that our responsibility is to others, and later in life that translates to making poor decisions for yourself in favor of another (men mostly) and the scale is so broad from live-in maid, to “allowed” assault. I see it in the women around me everyday. They’ve been indoctrinated into thinking it’s something greater to serve.. I see it in GIRLS around me so young and already putting their safety or feelings in jeopardy just to appease some dude who’s clearly just in his mind training his dog to fetch. I get so angry because the real way to stop this is to talk to other women. but so rarely does a woman in such a situation want to accept her reality. I have girlfriends who are so intelligent and strong willed, talented, kind, fierce, who immediately crumble and make unsafe or ignorant choices at their loss for SOME GUY some stupid loser, and it’s like all clarity leaves the room. you talk to a women in that position whether she feels trapped by the shackles of time or deluded by the sparkly fantasy image of their future life and they will deny it to your face that they live like servants let alone slaves. it seems like a rarity that theyll listen to genuine concern and wishes for better. Sometimes it seems easy to blame men and send them away but thats not the way to change someones heart. It’s not the way to reverse the convoluted thinking thats been impressed on someone if you care about the women in your life you will talk to them. tell then you love them and how you feel they deserve more than what they think. and then tell them again and again and again. If they want you to leave and stop talking to them, tell them again and that you’ll always have room in your heart for someone who needs a friend a women in that position will not leave a man because he’s gone, the post above is evidence of just how much women will go through, you have to reach HER. Women are the catalyst to the change we need.

When I worked as a cleaner in people's homes I was almost aIways called because the woman of the house had fallen sick or gotten a severe injury and the man refused to clean anything. I'd come in and immediately see women in wheelchairs or wearing a cast, severely disabled after surgery, something like that. All of them in severe pain, all of them feeling overwhelmed by all the unattended chores that their husbands refused to do. Some women just felt like it was normal for them to call another woman to clean up after their man, convinced that he just didn't know how to or shouldn't have to because he's a man. Others were just tired of living in the ever growing filth. It was always the women who welcomed me into the house, explained where things were and what I should do. A lot of the men were simply napping all the time, locking themselves in their bedrooms, chilling in front of the TV or by the pool. One tried to plug in the iron for me and shaked his head saying "I just don't know how this thing works, sorry". That man had been married for at least 20 years to this poor woman with a broken foot. So for 20 years he had a maid ironing all his clothes for free. 20 fucking years. Imagine that, sisters, for 20 years someone irons your clothes, or cooks for you, cleans up after you. Imagine. The amount of selfishness and egotism one would need to be like "yeah, this person acts like my servant and I totally take advantage of it". Is that love? The love heterosexuals keep going on about? The love women can't live without? As I left, he told me not to unplug the iron because his wife was going to try to iron while sitting down since she has a broken foot and the clothes are piling up. And I was like... why don't you do it yourself??? But I didn't say anything because I needed a job. It was the situation for 90% of the clients I had. And seeing this exact same pattern every day, seeing how these women lived with those men, because that's the kind of job that really allows you to see people's intimate lives you know? Well it really comforted me and my choice not to date men. I'd go home and absolutely relish my celibacy.

[pickleslice]

to ease my stress i have decided to fall in love with the speech path girl in my program