The biggest way that my Cerebral Palsy affects me is speech. I understand the world around me but when I try to speak the words do not come out clear. My arch nemesis is the evil K.
For a longtime I could not say the /k/ sound among other sounds. I have a /k/ sound in my name which would lead me to mispronounce my name. So "cookie" sounded a lot like "tootie".
A great way for others to understand whats its like for me to talk is to take marshmallows and without swallowing them try to talk. For preschool and kindergaten kids. Have them sing a song that they know like Old McDonald had a farm while having marshmallows in there mouth.
If they are older you can take it a step forward.
Steps
1 Line up outside the door.
2 one by one enter the classroom and given a card with a single word.
3 Sit down quietly Don't Talk
4 once everyone has a word hand out marshmallows try to have students rearrange themselves in ABC order with these rules.
They can not use hand gestures.
they can only say there word that is on their flashcard aka no sentences.
They can swallow there marshmallows
Explain that this is what some people with CP experience everyday. The pain the frustration the inability to communicate
I did the ABC order activity in a linguistics class. The students learned a ton. One told me that if she ever has students, she wants to be an elementary school teacher, with a speech impairment they are going to bring out the marshmallows.
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letter K
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marshmallows
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Marshmallows-thumb-420x240.jpg
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