#speech impairment

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[spooksforsammy]

Help me buy my aac device

Hello, a simple introduction. My name is Amy n I’m semiverbal with severe speech impairments. For the past few months, I’ve experienced verbal shutdowns that will last a few weeks-months, and then when my verbal speech is back I’m unintelligible. I can speak but no one can understand me,, this doesn’t include when my verbal speech is understandable,, but people still don’t understand due to me having a severe speech impairment.

Ive gone about this whole year not being able to communicate important health issues because I simply can’t talk. I’m over it and need serious doctor help but can’t talk to doctor or family.

Close to a year ago I started my first go fund me. For the aac device. And I’m super thankful for all y’all’s help,, but my needs changed and the final price switched from $200 to almost $700. That price would cover the tablet, case and aac app.

My school finally agreed to pay for the aac app,, but had very strict requirements. It had to be at least a gen 9 iPad and 256 GB (which we are working to change because that’s makes the tablet cost more). I’m still required to pay for the iPad + casing before they will buy my app,, BUT they will be covering it under my iep (and they can’t take it away if I have to switch or leave their school system!!)

Although my family understands how important this is,, they cannnot afford $400 for an iPad since we have to move and we have to do so very very soon. Any help is appreciated from donating to just sharing around. Since I saved the money from the last go fund me,, I already have $152/$400 meaning I only need $248!!

Any help is seriously appreciated. I know many are struggling with money right now, but sharing around is more than enough help.

How to donate

$152/$400

My cashapp is $amyisspooky (link)

My PayPal is @/ spooksforsammy (link hopefully, if doesn’t work please let me know)

My Venmo is @battyfangzz (link)

If you would like QR code please dm me

If you would like to commission me instead of just donating you can dm me fore more information as well.

I appreciate every little bit of help, seriously! Thank you so much!!

[neurodivergent-willow]

If you are D/deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired please read this!!!!

If you ever need to contact 999, you can message them. Heres how the register. Don't wait until emergency you should do it ASAP!

[sickly-sapphic]

[ID: A background with deep blue in the centre, which fades to a lighter blue. Text reads; background by valerianknows (pinterest). This disability pride month don't forget about...

this disability pride month don't forget about... high & medium support needs autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... Full time AAC users.

this disability pride month don't forget about... high & medium support needs autistics. (Full Time) Nonverbal or non-speaking autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics with speech delays and/or speech impairments.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics who LIKE using functioning, level, support needs, etc. labels.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistics that cannot type in "complete" sentences.

this disability pride month don't forget about... autistic people of colour and indigenous autistics.

this disability pride month don't forget about... intellectually disabled people.

this disability pride month don't forget about... developmentally disabled people. End ID]

[livelaughlovelams]

WAIT GUYS I'M ACTUALLY TWEAKING RN I WAS JUST AT SPEECH THERAPY AND YK DOING ALL MY STUTTERING THINGS BUT LIKE EVERY TIME I STUTTERED OR HAD A BLOCK STUTTER AND WE DID LIKE FLUENCY STRATEGIES, AFTER DOING THE STRATEGIES FOR A BIT, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I ACTUALLY EVENTUALLY GOT EVERY SINGLE WORD OUT!? LIKE WHAAAAAAAAAT!?! LIKE I COULD ACTUALLY TALK?!?! Y'ALL HONESTLY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW DEEP THIS IS, I'VE HAD A SEVERE STUTTER SINCE I COULD TALK AND THIS IS ACTUALLY SO COOL REEEEEEE THERE ARE LITERAL TEARS IN MY EYES AND NOW I FEEL LIKE DESMOULINS AT THE BASTILLE AND I ASSURE YOU HE FELT THE EXACT SAME WAY BECAUSE OMG WHAaaATTTTTTATATATATAAT!?!?!?¡¡!¡!¡!¡!

[themogaidragon]

ID: a drawing of a tablet with a black protective shell. On the screen there is a AAC text to speech application opened with buttons, categories and a short text written in the text box. End id

Here is another symbol for AAC! A text to speech tablet symbol. :)

[changeling-droneco]

I do wish that having a stutter was seen more as a disability by not stuttering people, struggling to speak is a HUGE impediment to a lot of things and makes certain hobbies or careers a lot harder. As well as having a stammer being seen as an acceptable target ridicule and a sign of stupidity, even if you like me had to do special speech classes as a child to try and make the stammer less noticeable and my words more legible. Things like voice acting, singing, video essays, or just anything that requires speaking have a much higher bar of entry to me, and it sucks that I have to remind myself that it is a speech impediment and a disability because no one sees it as one even though my life would be objectively easier without it. Include people who stutter in your disability advocation! Don’t make fun of people for it or use it as a way to code someone as stupid or insane!

[mxmorbidmidnight]

I’ve noticed that in the drama group I’m in a lot of the time the improv characters people make up are just imitations of people with disabilities. Faking a limp or manipulating their body to mock people with cerebral palsy or imitating speech impediments and people with intellectual disabilities. I felt particularly alienated when one kid made a cripple joke and everyone laughed, people who claim to be “politically correct”, people who I consider my friends. People who call themselves disability allies, who call themselves punks. Everyone’s a leftist, everyone’s all for being kind until it comes to disabled people.

[midnight-soulless-system]

What it means to be verbalpunk to us:

It means to speak in a disorganized way and not try to mask, especially on bad days. It means to not push ourselves to try and speak when we can't. It means to support others who talk "weird" or in a "disgusting" or "non-understandable" way. It means to be kind to ourselves when we can't mask our semiverbalness. It means to stutter freely and laugh it off. It means standing up against ableists who think that difficulty communication means that our voices don't matter. It means caring for our nonverbal and semiverbal siblings who have no way to community their needs and wants. It means not apologizing when speech come out wrong. It means laughing with our friends when our sentences are not at all what we wanted to say, and being able to let ourselves be upset when that happens too. It means accepting and being kind to those who talk differently from you because that's what everyone deserves.

Being verbalpunk means being accepting of others speech. No exceptions.

[atticollateral]

going in for an autism assessment on the 23rd of April (go me!) so in honour of my potential autism, my short term memory issues and my diagnosed ADHD & Tourette's I would like to present to you:

my favorite phrases, which I say so much that they are now knee-jerk comments & tics but I always end up forgetting what I'm going to say (if I'm going to say anything at all), a master list.

fun fact,

did you know-?

I need everyone to understand,

can we talk about-?

and another thing!

have you ever

has anyone here

do you know where...?

have you seen...?

what if

yes and also

it's...

no, but...

well, about that...

did i ever tell you / have i ever told you

what if i told you

jesus

General Stammering. ex: i- but? wait. no. i uh. shit, wait. what?

[themummersfolly]

Theory: Furiosa's inexplicable American accent isn't an accent at all, it's a speech impairment.

Growing up in the Green Place, she gets years of postapocalyptic speech therapy from Mary and K.T. and it's almost unnoticeable. But then she's captured by Dementus and spends decades almost completely mute and under extreme stress, and by the time she's an adult it's back in force with the weird vowels and the overemphasized "r"s and everything.

Like of course she's going to sound different on the rare occasions she speaks, she's autistic (coded), frequently nonverbal, and living in an environment with zero access to support.

[spooksforsammy]

Help me buy my aac tablet!

If can’t donate please reshare!

Hello, I’m Amy! I’m a minor with autism and a speech impairment. I’ve gotten to a point in my life where speech only irritates me and sends me into a shutdown. AAC was my only form of communication during times like this and I need that back for my health.

My family can’t currently afford to buy one and because of my age and disabilities, I can’t work. Originally I was using my phone and tablet as an aac device but having the app on my phone wasn’t working anymore. My tablet recently got broken so both options are gone.

My goal is $260. This will pay for the tablet and app. App want meant go on sell some time around October 15, this would be best time buy both

Cashapp: babyfaceslider

PayPal: Spooksforsammy

(Boyfriend manages account; is his just using since can’t have own)

Will maybe open commissions get more money.

[weirdo-catkid]

Just feeling angry that AAC apps are a fortune to buy and subscribe to. Why is communication locked behind a pay wall? I hate it here. I hope i will be able to get one from school for free, because i hate having to ask my parents for these things.

[lexiconne]

Dumb Writer Needs Help Writing Disability!!

So, I have this project I've been working on that has come together really nicely here lately. It's on its rewrite phase, and I really want to make sure it's exactly the way I want it to be this time.

However! I am going to be writing about several main characters with physical disabilities, and as I have no personal experience and very little other experience with their disabilities, I'd like to ask those who do for input.

I have already done research! However, it can be just as valuable if not more so to ask the source directly for personal recounts, and I tend to have trouble reading/really comprehending/remembering resources that are worded too stiffly. I have the basic terms down (I think), but I want to know: what's something that irritates you about the disability on a day to day basis? What's something you find comforting about it? Are there any positives you'd like to express? Any little neutral happenings that just go along with it? Think how glasses wearers (me) know that touching the lenses is the WORST thing to do, and rain is a MASSIVE pain in the butt. Just little things that I can perhaps include and make the characters and their experiences seem more authentic.

I currently have:

a Deaf character (can only hear very faint sounds) who has special Magic Fantasy Hearing Aids™ to help magnify existing sound to whatever degree he needs. They do have downsides and are not perfect, and he makes frequent references to being Deaf; they're not a magical way to make him un-disabled when convenient, just a disability aid that would exist in this world in their time period. He's been Deaf since birth.

a character who loses a limb (her leg) and creates her own robotic prosthetic. This has world-specific drawbacks like needing to be oiled, getting too hot or cold, etc. but I would love to include real-world ones too. (I know next to nothing about prosthetics ^.^*)

A character who has her voice sealed away via a curse, making her speech-impaired (mute? Is that offensive?) in that she cannot form words. Sounds can be made, but they cause pain. This one is more heavily tied to the fantasy aspect and while I can make up my own rules for a curse, I'd like to include some real-world similar experiences to make it seem more grounded.

(The first and third one meet and he teaches her sign language!)

Please feel free to mention any aspects you want or point out if I've said something you find odd! Plus, if you have any more resources you want to link like official articles and such, that would be so appreciated. This is a learning post. <3

Thank you for your patience, time, and energy!

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TLDR: need help from disabled peoples! Please infodump on me!

[muchmossymess]

Just want to say if you have any sort of speech impediment you're doing amazing and I love you

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Any other neurodivergents who love yapping about their special interests but have issues with speech so they can’t actually communicate what they’re trying to say. I promise I do know of what I am speaking, my brain just cannot coordinate bodily functions. Tis so frustrating because I am so exited to talk about these things but for whatever reason I cannot!!!