Speech Impedaments

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So does anyone here have any sort of speech impedament? I sort of do I have a nasal tone that I never noticed untill I was made fun of in school for it. But when I lisened to my own voice I sound fine to me. How about you?

Well no. But I can assure you that speech impediments of different types are very common.

I also have speech problems!

- I started talking late (3 1/2 first sentence, 4 years second sentence).
- I was very dyslexic as a child.
- As a child I couldn't differentiate between "b" and "p", "d" and "t" and so on. (You could hear that when I was talking)
- I don't have a huge vocabulary and have trouble understanding difficult sentencess

But strange enough, I don't have trouble learning languages when I learn them by hearing.
I fact I can read several different languages and speak some different ones.
But there I have pretty much the same problems like in my own language.

I have speech problems as a child and still as an adult because I tend to stutter at times, struggle to pronounce words and I still have trouble with communicating with other people in conversations.

I stutter occasionally and have a somewhat nasal tone. When we listen to ourselves speak it sounds fine. I was shocked the first time I heard my own voice recorded. I thought I sounded way cooler!

I've always had a slight stutter. Words beginning with S, F, A and E challenge me. Sometimes, my speech is slow, because I get stuck on a sound. It is not a stutter, but an inability to pronounce a sound. When this happens, people try to complete what I want to say. Arrrrgh!

Apparently, I sometimes have a slight French accent. How? I don't speak that language.

I also started talking late. My first sentence came out of my mouth at 3.

I also had speech delays--I had a 10-15 word vocabulary when I was 2 1/2, and some (or most) of that was words I only had said once or twice. I got into speech therapy, and that helped a lot. I asked my first question when I was 3 1/2, at my grandfathers viewing ("What do, Grandpa?"--in other words, "What are you doing asleep in this bed? Get up!").

Part of that was due to the expressive language delays related to my autism. Part of that was my CP.

I did not speak until I was age 3/4. Other than that, I speak normally; however, I do use a big vocabulary.

I was hyperverbal at a young age. I did have a small problem with going back a phrase in my speech and revising it, which is now all but gone, and only comes out when I am extremely stressed.

I do. I tend to talk to fast and then stumble over my words. I have a monotone voice and a bit of a lisp. I have a hard time listening to myself on tape.

I have always had a stammer so if anyone needs any tips on this then please feel free to ask me either in the forum or via pm.

Thanks
Mike

As far as I know, I never had a speech delay. I actually heard I was really loud instead. But I do remember my dad taking my to a speech therapist because he thought I had a speech empediment. They said I talked too fast, now I talk too slow appearently
Also, now actual speech problems are starting to come out. The most common is random letters in random words getting exaggerated or having weird accents throw onto them. Then when there's too much excitement the two really bad ones come out. Some little words get flipped around to where the sentence is almost backwards. Then suffixes get screwed up almost all the time
I'm honestly really surprised that I'm passing the verbal protion of spanish

My stammer seems to come on when the social atmosphere gets tense. I couldn't fathom this when I was younger because I didn't have a natural flare socially so I couldn't see it. But the older I got and the more experience I attained in such matters the more I became aware of them.

Being mindful of such can help because I know that I cannot leave things brewing for too long and that something has to give somewhere. And when it does and everyone breathes a sigh of relief my speech gets better and I stammer less.

I used to when I was a child.

Now sometimes whenever I speak, I sound like I still do have a speech impediment or am about to panic as soon as I finish talking.

I used to have very problematic issues with words beginning with vowels (a, e, i, o & u) and would avoid them at all costs. I then had difficulties with w's too which can pose problems with asking questions at school, etc. I had difficulties with other letters too such as with: h, s, b, d...in fact I have had a problem with almost every letter at some point. Particular frustrations are words beginning with h such as hello and g such as goodbye.

Not always being able to verbally express myself appropriately at times such as saying 'goodbye' racks me up with so much grief you wouldn't believe. Some times goodbye's are quick and yet I come to say goodbye and I block and cannot say it....I then come over as uncaring. Equally someone says hello in the street and I block and by the time I've said hello back I'm out of hearing range of that person and it's as if I didn't say hello or ignored them. Then next time I see them they don't bother saying hello. It is so frustrating when it happens and sadly that frustration/anger/rage is turned inwards and I stammer even more then.

I notice it seems to come on when there is particular boisterousness in the room such as when things start heating up in arguments or when negotiating and things are getting edgy. I suppose an edginess exists in a room when people are swapping social pleasantries and suddenly my stammer creates a kind of negativity and resentment as people don't understand why I haven't reciprocated quite as they expected. This creates tension where there shouldn't be any and can lead to particular conflicts further down the line and again that frustration/anger/rage is turned inwards.

I don't stammer all the time and can in fact read entire books without stammering at all.