One primary point Moore uses in his speech is how distressing stuttering can be. Stuttering can be heartbreaking for a couple of reasons such as the embarrassing moments they face and the frustration that follows. Secondly, stuttering can occur for different reasons. Adult stutterers can either stammer for having a hard block, vocalize a longer word, or…
Imagine a thirteen-year-old student going to St. Jude. This kid may not be anyone famous or amazing, he is just a normal kid. However this child really helps out his school and parish. From CYO sports to school plays to Student Council, this kid does it all.…
Hoagland’s “ On Stuttering” This essay was exceedingly interesting; at the heart of this essay, is a person who has struggled with a physical impediment, but has still managed to lead a fairly normal life. Although He struggled with the impediment to the point of not voicing his own opinion, Edward Hoagland adapted to his impediment and was able to overcome the struggles he faced everyday. Some disabilities can leave people trapped inside their own body.…
1. Chapter 8: What are the secondary/overt/concomitant stuttering behaviors that are audible? How would you go about treating a student that exhibited these behaviors? (Page 205) In general, stuttering is a speech disorder that that is portrayed by two or more disturbances that can include silent blocks, sound prolongations, broken words, etc.…
Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder defined by sudden, repetitive, involuntary movements or vocalizations called tics. The worst symptoms are first noticed in childhood before the age of 18 years with improvement into late teens and adulthood. Males are affected three to four times more often than females. Approximately 200,000 individuals have a severe form of TS. Tic disorders can occur in all ethnic and cultural groups and tend to be genetic.…
On January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, a baby boy was born to parents who would end up being more absent than present in his life. At the tender age of 5, the boy moved to Jackson, Michigan to be raised by his grandparents on their farm. The change of life from Mississippi to Michigan was so disturbing for the young boy that he developed a stuttering problem. Upon entering school, his stutter became worse, causing him to become self-conscious and shy around his peers. It progressed to the point where the boy decided to stop talking at school altogether to protect himself from the harsh scrutiny of his classmates.…
There are kids that excel in their linguistic abilities and there are others that have trouble explaining through the use of words. One little boy of Asian ethnicity spoke to his classmate with complete sentences and his friend responded back with stuttering and broken sentences. The little Asian boy had trouble focusing and had a lot of energy while being in class but he had a strength in communicating with others. Another form of cognitive and linguistic development is for students to have the ability to retain memory and their attention span. While in…
During this experiment, I tried to consider the people I grew up with who stutter.…
An increasing amount of theory and research in cognitive development has allowed further reason into the education field, of infamous Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Vygotsky focused on the cognitive and social development of a child, concentrating on a child’s speech. Studies found that children use stages of speech to support specific tasks to aid their functioning of language and thought. Vygotsky’s…
L.R.’s GFTA-3 results indicate that he produced 20 errors. When compared to other children his age, this score converts to a standard score of 81 with a percentile rank of 10. L.R’s errors are within lower range when compared to children of his chronological age. Based on the findings of the GFTA-3, L.R. presents with an articulation disorder, characterized by final consonant deletion, vocalization, gliding of liquids, omissions, and consonant cluster reduction. Oral Motor Function…
What is it like to be a parent of a child who is deaf? “In the beginning, parenting a child who is born deaf is extremely difficult but as weeks, months, and years goes on everything begins to feel as normal as having a hearing child.” Stated Marie, my neighbor of fifteen years. Marie was completely blindsided when she went in for her 6 months checkup and the doctor revealed to her that her baby boy was going to be born without his sense of hearing. She had no idea what she was going to do, how she was going to live, parent, and communicate with her child.…
Since I was born I have always dealt with a speech impediment. I went to speech therapy from the age 5 to 13. As I got older started going less and less to speech therapy but I would still go at least twice a month. Th reason behind my speech impediment is because I can not breath out of nose, which is very key whenever you are talking. I have improved greatly over the years to the point where people tell that I have done my whole life that they can not even tell I had a speech impediment at one time.…
Dyslexia is an inherited condition that makes it extremely difficult to read, write, and spell in your native language, despite having an at least average intelligence. Dyslexia is very common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In 1905 W.E. Burner published the first report of childhood reading difficulties in the U.S..…
This theory is built around the idea that both social and biological processes are significant where “social interactions between children and the significant people in their environment as being the key to language learning and development” (Fellows Pg 51). Kearns, (2010) describes this theory in practice whereby the learning and development of the individual is dependent on the way the adult interacts to facilitate the learning process. Adults act as a guide to provide the child with the ability to explore through communicating with others, slowly developing their own knowledge and assumptions of the world around them. There is one central aspect of Vygotsky’s (1978) theory which set it apart from other theories of cognitive development, this being the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development…
Basically, There four three main problem with Maria summarized by Mr. Bennett. Did not be school on time, might cause by flexible school time before; not able to complete reading assignment (poor reading skills), might cause by different language use; trouble with all subject (poor academic skills), might cause by different course schedule; and unable to contact with parents (never responds), might cause by language or not familiar with different types of electrical products. How does linguistic diversity influence classroom performance? Linguistic might cause unskilled language in different ways like reading writing and speaking.…