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Seeing the Bright Side of Things Hello everyone! I’ve been experiencing more disfluencies this past week, which have mostly been repetitions (even though my primary diagnosis was a speech block). I’ve been using my strategies, but the more severe disfluencies have been happening. Since this week is professional development at my job (I teach), I felt both sad and angry with my speech this week, since I’ve been speaking in front of others. However, after thinking about it, I am still proud of my progress and success in increasing my fluency (both in and out of social settings). Whenever I was in a group, I was usually the first person to speak, and I was even encouraged by my coworkers to share out! To everyone reading this, yes there are going to be days, and even weeks when your disfluencies are more severe, but don’t give up! Still go to that social event,ask that special somebody out on a date, and/or make that important phone call! You’ll feel better afterwards! Trust me.