Hi everyone, I'm a new user who just registered a few minutes ago! I'm Strong (that's my username) and I am so glad to have found this website because I can finally vent out my frustrations!!!
Sorry...I'm feeling a bit frustrated and pissed off as hell now. Anyway I was born profoundly deaf and at age 8, I received a Cochlear Implant at a hospital in Toronto. Since that time, I went through speech therapy for about 6 years and then I stopped due to some reason. I was supposed to transfer to another area to continue the therapy, but I didn't.
Now it's been 5 years since the abrupt end to my speech therapy back in Toronto, I have suddenly decided to go back to therapy because of the dreams I had! In this past summer, I was beginning to experience dreams in which I was talking to someone and out of nowhere, I started to lose my ability to speak and consequently my speech became incoherent. That's what has driven me to despair to pursue speech therapy!
To make this worse, I got a job at another hospital as a student and I was talking to someone else at the training session. That was one of the wore moments ever because as I was talking to her, she said, "I'm so sorry I feel so bad!!!" when she couldn't grasp what I'm saying. I was really depressed because the day before that, I went to a dermatologist and found out that I have female pattern baldness...I'm only 17 and this has truly impacted my self esteem.
Anyway...at my school, a speech therapist came to assess my speech to determine if I'm in need of speech therapy. Well...a speech therapist trains for those who have hearing problems will come...in spring! That's when I will be graduating high school and I will not receive free service anymore!! I cannot afford private services but I will look into Canadian Hearing Society later.
Ugh...today I was giving a presentation and, of course, I dreaded it very much due to my speech. Three weeks before, I spoke to my teacher about my situation of my speech and she bluntly told me, "I would rather you didn't (put whole text on the PowerPoint for the audience to understand me)." I disnt say anything. So when I proceeded to present, I was watching some members of the audience making an effort to understand me by looking attheir "constipated" facial expressions.
Ugh. God help me. Thank you very much to listen to my tirade.
Sorry...I'm feeling a bit frustrated and pissed off as hell now. Anyway I was born profoundly deaf and at age 8, I received a Cochlear Implant at a hospital in Toronto. Since that time, I went through speech therapy for about 6 years and then I stopped due to some reason. I was supposed to transfer to another area to continue the therapy, but I didn't.
Now it's been 5 years since the abrupt end to my speech therapy back in Toronto, I have suddenly decided to go back to therapy because of the dreams I had! In this past summer, I was beginning to experience dreams in which I was talking to someone and out of nowhere, I started to lose my ability to speak and consequently my speech became incoherent. That's what has driven me to despair to pursue speech therapy!
To make this worse, I got a job at another hospital as a student and I was talking to someone else at the training session. That was one of the wore moments ever because as I was talking to her, she said, "I'm so sorry I feel so bad!!!" when she couldn't grasp what I'm saying. I was really depressed because the day before that, I went to a dermatologist and found out that I have female pattern baldness...I'm only 17 and this has truly impacted my self esteem.
Anyway...at my school, a speech therapist came to assess my speech to determine if I'm in need of speech therapy. Well...a speech therapist trains for those who have hearing problems will come...in spring! That's when I will be graduating high school and I will not receive free service anymore!! I cannot afford private services but I will look into Canadian Hearing Society later.
Ugh...today I was giving a presentation and, of course, I dreaded it very much due to my speech. Three weeks before, I spoke to my teacher about my situation of my speech and she bluntly told me, "I would rather you didn't (put whole text on the PowerPoint for the audience to understand me)." I disnt say anything. So when I proceeded to present, I was watching some members of the audience making an effort to understand me by looking attheir "constipated" facial expressions.
Ugh. God help me. Thank you very much to listen to my tirade.