While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
I did have a speech impediment.
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.
I've got a speech impediment.
I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
There's nothing wrong with a lisp.
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
It hurts me not to be able to communicate like I used to. I used to be pretty good at coming back, you know, quick one-liners.
With Parkinson's, you do need more rest.
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.
I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.
I had one major concussion. It's different for each guy. For me, it was never an issue because I didn't have an issue with concussions.
The American accent is a little bit tricky. We grew up with American TV shows, so we've had a lot of exposure to it and that helps, but there's little nuances and little details. Sometimes there'll be just a phrase or couple words that are really difficult to get your mouth around. At the end of every season we go over and revoice anything that has sound issues, including my kiwi accent coming out.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
