Speech Therapy Quotes

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

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

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

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

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

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 did have a speech impediment.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

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.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.