My daughter didnt talk until she was 5 because of a brain injury. When she did talk it still took her a long time to learn how to say things.
At 20, she still gets stumped with longer words.
We know real discrimination. The public schools were the worst! They treated her like she was mentally retarded. They wanted to dumb down her education, and didnt want to privide her with enough speech therapy.
We switched her to a private school with a multi-sensory reading program for dyslexia and then put her in private speech therapy. She has a 4.0 after 3 semesters of college. I don’t think she’s mentally retarted!
I’m very thankful that most people text. My daughter still has a hard time speaking on the phone. I do get worried about her using 911 because her speech is worse when she’s stressed, and I think it would be bad in an emergency situation.
>>We know real discrimination. The public schools were the worst! They treated her like she was mentally retarded. They wanted to dumb down her education, and didnt want to privide her with enough speech therapy.
Most people can’t disconnect speech impediments from some form of retardation. Big Education probably doesn’t get a lot of government money for speech therapy, so they don’t care about it. But if they can get a child listed as developmentally disabled or mentally challenged (or whatever the euphemisms are today), then they probably get a lot more funding.
Of course, when I was in elementary school, getting funding wasn’t the purpose. Back then, they tried to get a stutterer labeled as retarded to get them out of the “normal” classroom.