#speech impairment

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[osokasstuff]

hot take that shouldn't be hot: people who struggle with speech should be given AAC the moment it's found out they struggle with speech. not when the cause is found, not when they get diagnosed with something, not after other therapies are tried, etc.

someone can't communicate (or have limited ability to communicate) through verbal speech. they need to communicate. give them an opportunity to do so. don't put them in a limbo of waiting for month and years without ability to communicate/with limited ability to communicate. that's awful. everyone has a right to communicate! everyone should get this ability IN TIME.

it's awful that people are trapped in waiting, in shitty speech therapies (speech therapy that doesn't give aac to person who needs it is shitty), in tons of tests and evaluations without access to communication. it's awful that disabled people are again put in position when they have to accommodate themselves with very limited resources while struggling with difficult experience (navigating through world without fully working speech, probably adjusting to changes if they used to have more abilities, etc).

that's so ableist.

(AAC = alternative and augmentative communication).

[astrosouldivinity]

Hey there! Are there certain aspects or placements in your birth chart (natal) that make you stutter or have speech impediments?

Hmm well to start, I would consider Mercury-Neptune aspects. This could manifest as difficulty in expressing oneself clearly. Additionally, a lack of air element in a natal chart may indicate reduced natural fluency in communication as well.

More Placements/Aspects to Consider:

3H Chiron: This placement indicates wounds related to communication and expression, which can lead to feelings of inadequacy when speaking.

Mercury in Pisces: Individuals with this placement could struggle with articulating their thoughts clearly, as their communication style can appear uncanny or mystical.

10H Mercury: I have this placement, which creates pressure for me to communicate effectively in public settings. But this can manifest as struggles with speaking, which makes me prefer writing as my primary form of expression.

In addition, individuals with Mercury in the 10H may also experience shyness, particularly if they have been judged for their outspoken nature. They could feel like their words carry significant weight, which can further contribute to communication challenges.

Saturn-Mercury Aspects: This aspect can promote a sense of seriousness or self-doubt around communication, making individuals with this placement feel burdened by their words and overall communication style.

Mercury in the 1H: This placement can indicate a strong focus on communication and self-expression, but if negatively aspected, it could manifest as anxiety in speaking situations.

Mercury in the 12H: Individuals with this placement could struggle with articulating their ideas clearly, as their innermost thoughts can be clouded and difficult to access. This might result in hesitation or confusion when speaking.

Moon-Mercury Aspects: Individuals with this aspect might struggle with emotional sensitivity linked to self-expression, which can lead to hesitation or fear of judgment when speaking.

Mercury Retrograde in a Natal Chart: Individuals with this placement may have a more introspective communication style, and they can also experience learning difficulties and struggles in expressing themselves, which can lead to challenges in articulating their thoughts clearly.

This is all I got for now. I hope I answered your question and it provided you clarity.

-Kiki ❤︎

[neurodivergent-catlover]

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

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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

This is my Amazon wishlist if would like just buy iPad or related aac items! They all labeled as highest priority .

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!!

[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.

[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!

[disabled-planet]

I wish people wouldn’t laugh at my words that I have difficulty with, how I jumble up my words, and so forth.

Looking back, man I got laughed at so many times

[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!?!?!?¡¡!¡!¡!¡!

[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]

[eggy0lk00]

growing up disabled really feels like you’re the bad guy for … being a person ? lmao

[osokasstuff]

on topic of AAC users & proper grammar (or lack of it)

i think there is another aspect besides struggles with language & cognitive struggles & other internal stuff. and besides some AAC apps/methods don't support creating proper grammar.

have people considered that it's difficult to communicate with all proper grammar, punctuation, etc. when you have to type out most or all of your communication?

fully verbal people with no speech impairments don't always speak with proper grammar. because it takes time and energy. because conversations can be fast, emotionally loaded, or just low efforts. people don't communicate only in perfectly articulated essays with all proper grammar and all thoughts perfectly structured. people interrupt themselves and each other, use shorthands and slang, just mess up with grammar, and it's totally fine! because they still understand each other, and if they don't, they ask for clarification. and same for typing. fully verbal people with no speech impairments use shorthands, use memes, use slang, use simpler grammar, mess with grammar, etc.

but gods forbid AAC users do the same. we're suddenly stupid and unreadable and whatever. we suddenly have nothing to communicate. our communication is suddenly flawed.

i know a lot of AAC users' struggles with grammar go beyond "regular grammar mess that people with no speech impairment can do." i don't say it's same thing. i don't try to diminish AAC users' struggles with language.

i just mean that. even if someone has zero struggles with words & grammar & expressing their thoughs through written language. it's really exhausting to communicate everything or a huge chunk of your thoughts by text on daily basis. it's impossible to communicate in perfect essays on daily basis. that's why we have essays and have regular speech.

but AAC users get denied in having daily language style that can be messy and lack of proper grammar and not perfectly articulated AT ALL [PT: at all].

because A LOT OF [PT: a lot of] "support" for AAC users is something like "actually, you/they/we can communicate in always perfect grammar & style, you/they/we are actually always well articulated and can explain everything and express your/them/ourselves through essays constantly!" our right to communicate and value of our communication is justified by saying that we can communicate perfectly ALWAYS. ALL DAY EVERY DAY EVERY TOPIC EVERY MOMENT OF OUR LIFE. [PT: always. all day every day every topic every moment of our life]. and when we can't meet this unrealistically high standard, our right to communicate and value of our communication is immediately questioned. because our right to communicate & value of our communication were initially tied to that unrealistically high standard.

(and these ideas throw AAC users who can't communicate with proper grammar or express their thoughs perfectly through text under the bus. which is extremely ableist).

let AAC users have REGULAR DAILY SPEECH PATTERNS PLEASE [PT: regular daily speech patterns please].

(and again, all AAC users, regardless of their ability or inability to communicate with perfect grammar, have right to communicate & their communication should be listened to, taken respectfully, and not dismissed).

[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. :)

[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.

[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.

[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!!!