How/why do speech impediments happen?
In: Biology
I have a lisp and it’s the result of a birth defect in my ears. Basically my ear canal was malformed and so when I was born they weren’t open holes making all sounds extremely muffled and garbled to me. I was a very sick baby so it took a while until I was healthy enough to have corrective surgery done but by that time I had passed the most important stage of learning how to speak which is- hearing how to speak! My hearing isn’t perfect and I need subtitles to watch anything, I have hearing aids to help too. My lisp comes from the fact that I’ve never heard how to speak correctly and I can’t properly hear myself to know how to fix it. It’s all a guessing game!
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