I couldn't agree more! Sign language is a qualification to have under your belt. It isn't an alternative for people who stutter! I have a tiny notebook and a pen on a daily basis in case I'm not able to get a word out of my mouth as well as I encounter someone who is impertinent, not accommodating and reluctant to hear me. The root of the problem for me is *lack of deference not impatience*
Hey! I had an almost unintelligible stutter as a kid and went to speech therapy a lot, as I'm sure you did. There was a guy in my class at one of the schools I went to who sounded just like you, he was using his throat too much to try to speak and he showed improvement from speaking more from the teeth as the speech therapist explained it to us. Is that the sort that you have? (We had group and individual practices idk if that's normal.) I speak almost fluently now, I just had to slow down and basically build the muscles needed to speak instead of slamming through the words at a rapid pace as I'm sure you've been told doesn't help lol. I can see how learning asl could help with a bad stutter to communicate, it'll help pace words and calm you down when speaking to someone who does know asl, and make lapses in time with stutters more manageable. What sorts of vocal exercises do you do if you don't mind me asking? I was trying to learn how to sign "stutter" in asl, I just randomly got curious of it and stumbled across your video!
If a stutterer was completely deaf----use sign language!! How many normal hearing people actually know sign language in return??? Probably not many....you would need an interpreter as well.....not alot of people know sign language....only for deaf people....
I met a speech therapist once at a stuttering conference and she said that she worked with a deaf baby who stuttered in ASL. I have never heard of that.
@juliarayful from my understanding of it, it's more of a form of recall issue and sign double guessing than a stutter that most speakers would have an issue with. It's a fascinating issue ngl
Thank you for sharing. It was informative. You did a Great job. God bless!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am an SLP and I think many people I have met who stutter would agree with what you are saying.
I couldn't agree more! Sign language is a qualification to have under your belt. It isn't an alternative for people who stutter! I have a tiny notebook and a pen on a daily basis in case I'm not able to get a word out of my mouth as well as I encounter someone who is impertinent, not accommodating and reluctant to hear me. The root of the problem for me is *lack of deference not impatience*
Hey! I had an almost unintelligible stutter as a kid and went to speech therapy a lot, as I'm sure you did. There was a guy in my class at one of the schools I went to who sounded just like you, he was using his throat too much to try to speak and he showed improvement from speaking more from the teeth as the speech therapist explained it to us. Is that the sort that you have? (We had group and individual practices idk if that's normal.) I speak almost fluently now, I just had to slow down and basically build the muscles needed to speak instead of slamming through the words at a rapid pace as I'm sure you've been told doesn't help lol. I can see how learning asl could help with a bad stutter to communicate, it'll help pace words and calm you down when speaking to someone who does know asl, and make lapses in time with stutters more manageable. What sorts of vocal exercises do you do if you don't mind me asking? I was trying to learn how to sign "stutter" in asl, I just randomly got curious of it and stumbled across your video!
If a stutterer was completely deaf----use sign language!! How many normal hearing people actually know sign language in return??? Probably not many....you would need an interpreter as well.....not alot of people know sign language....only for deaf people....
I met a speech therapist once at a stuttering conference and she said that she worked with a deaf baby who stuttered in ASL. I have never heard of that.
@juliarayful from my understanding of it, it's more of a form of recall issue and sign double guessing than a stutter that most speakers would have an issue with. It's a fascinating issue ngl
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