Speech Pathology Quotes

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

I did have a speech impediment.

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

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.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

I've got a speech impediment.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

A lot of families with kids with autism can't afford speech therapy for their children and can't afford to get them in the best schools for autism. We're trying to help make a difference in those communities.

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.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.