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Finding Myself In Speech | Natalie Paquet | TEDxDePereMiddleSchool


and I’m speech therapy
I started our class you in the fifth
grade and had some great teachers that
knew what I needed some people let me
think of speech issues they think of the
oddness like a list or a stutter and
that’s okay those are legitimate speech
issues that people have to deal with
every day but my speech engine is a
little bit different and that’s why I’m
going to share with you today my first
feature shoe is called a ladder list a
lateral list is where my se C and J
sounds sounded really splashy
so words like cheese would come out like
cheese this is something that I knew
that was going to outgrow and have to
reach me myself to do so I need you guys
help me out can you say cheese on my pal
one two three cheese good job I need you
to do so this time I want you guys to
say cheese again with me but focus on
your tongue is locating your mouth Eddie
one two three jeez great job again so
can anybody tell me where your tongue
was in your mouth
Sophia right the tip of your tongue was
really on the top or there through your
mouth this is different from me
because my tongue would time just hang
out there or even spelled the sides like
this cheese and that’s one of the
reasons why start speech therapy my
second speech issue was called a lateral
but sorry was called food to eat fluency
is read start talking
China five lots of people won’t think of
this as a speech issue but it was very
real to me
impacted how I spoke each day this was
fluency was expressing hard for me
because I felt I would take too long and
people get impatient with me and this
will so affected my concentration in the
classroom so for example let’s say that
this is your train of thought this is a
conversation with your brother a teacher
at school a friend so what happened to
me is through the day my conversations
would get lost and have to restart and
then I’d be left with a pile of half
conversations at the end of the day that
I didn’t know to do with speech brought
a lot of feelings for me like
frustration being tired angry sad not
smart and hopeless this Lukas crazy was
totally nice it was a little bit weird
my first speech visit I had opening wide
and shift to show her where my tongue
was in my mouth it felt like I was at
the dentist
ah I would use would look like a
space-age telephone sorry there you go
oh look look I would use what looked
like a space-age telephone to hear the
words I was saying over again so I would
use this just like a normal telephone
except I would so easy just looking on
the telephone but I would say the words
and I would be able to hear them back
again
I’ve been slipped some cards to practice
forming my mouth and I’ve used a mirror
and they’re fun and a fun one remote to
see all my toggle eyes and should be for
fluency I was tagged and checking
tapping was fighting the rhythm so I
would say it like this so we could say
this together so what you have to do
with happen is you would find a rhythm
in your speech so you could tap on
something and you feel word by word so
let’s say this together the quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog and ran down
oh good job now it’s choking what you do
is you would work on saying the words
just in groups of three so this would
give this would have this would let me
have a chance times breast in between my
sentences and think about is going to
say so now let’s try this the quick
brown fox trot over
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good Jack it’s a little tricky low
because you just want to say the whole
sentence with lots of time and hard work
I saw improvement I was able to say
words better thanks Paris I thought
smart thoroughly it’s hard to get a word
in edgewise with my brother and dad
I can always wanted you to work and some
days are better than others but I
noticed that frustration hopelessness
anger and sadness tiredness and the
feeling of being not smart it turned
into confidence happiness less stress
and more self-aware so next year is my
monitor I’ll be an eighth grade and that
was no more speech there but the help
will be there if I need it
I’d like to thank all my teachers my
friend miss Lucas crowd you miss
Kerensky my speed futures for always
being by my side so if you’re going to
speech there the art in speech therapy
don’t be embarrassed or scared because I
did it in tubes all these celebrities
Tiger Woods Bruce Willis Samuel Jackson
and Joe Biden they all stuttered Barbara
Walters and Michael Phelps they had a
whist and James Earl Jones Marilyn Merle
and Julia Roberts they call soil
stutters and many more these are all
really successful people and I should
finish it give me a couple years and
I’ll be there too
you
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