People with the condition aren't mute because there is something wrong with their vocal cords, or to hide a speech defect.
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I had a very bad speech defect as a child, and I was taught to speak again by a voice teacher by reading Shakespeare and other dramatists.
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It was discovered that his teeth were crooked and badly deformed, confirming historical references to his speech defect.
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Bakwin, R. M. and Bakwin, H. (1952), Cluttering, The Journal of Pediatrics, 40, pp393-396. Bakwin observed that clutterers could temporarily overcome their speech defect when they tried to do so."Common Sense id Back: You And Your Child," by Marcia Winn, Charleston Daily Mail, June 29, 1952, page 30.
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Guttural realization of is mostly considered a speech defect in Italian (cf. rotacismo), but the so-called r moscia which is sometimes uvular is quite common in some northern areas, such as Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna.Romano A. (2013). “A preliminary contribution to the study of phonetic variation of in Italian and Italo-romance”.
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Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, p. 418. Ieshige suffered from chronic ill health and a severe speech defect which rendered his speaking nearly incomprehensible. Yoshimune's choice of Ieshige as his heir created considerable controversy within the shogunate as his younger brothers Tokugawa Munetake and Tokugawa Munetada appeared to be far more suitable candidates.
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Two plates were set before young Musa, one contained rubies and the other held glowing coals. Musa reached out for the rubies, but the angel Gabriel directed his hand to the coals. Musa grabbed a glowing coal and put it in his mouth, burning his tongue. After the incident Musa suffered from a speech defect but was spared by the Pharaoh.
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Wallis was born in Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany, where his father was an advocate. Wallis was deaf and mute until six years of age, and it was not until 1836 that he was able to talk. As a consequence, he suffered from a speech defect during his entire life. In about 1836 his father died, leaving his mother a widow with six children.
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Common from the time of Gustav III (Swedish king 1771-1792), who was much inspired by French culture and language, was the use of guttural R in the nobility and in the upper classes of Stockholm. This phenomenon vanished in the 1900s. The last well-known non-Southerner who spoke with a guttural R, and didn't have a speech defect, was Anders Gernandt, a popular equitation commentator on TV.
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In addition to physical exercises, which helped with patients' breathing, Logue's distinctive therapy emphasised humour, patience, and "superhuman sympathy". In 1924, Logue took his wife and three sons to England, ostensibly for a holiday. Once there, he took jobs teaching elocution at schools around London, and in 1926 he opened a speech-defect practice at 146 Harley Street. Logue used fees paid by wealthy clients to subsidise patients unable to pay.
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In 1819 Noble gave up his profession to become the successor of Thomas F. Churchill, M.D., a minister of the Cross Street congregation, which was then worshipping in Lisle Street, Leicester Square. He was ordained on Whitsunday, 1820. His ministry was effective, though he had a speech defect. The congregation, which had been declining, was increased by Noble to a more solid prosperity, and purchased (about 1829) the chapel in Cross Street vacated by Edward Irving.
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Marano, Vote Your Conscience, p. 29. Abdnor's campaign focused on both McGovern's liberal voting record and what it said was McGovern's lack of involvement in South Dakota affairs. McGovern made an issue of NCPAC's outside involvement, and that group eventually withdrew from the campaign after Abdnor denounced a letter it had sent out. Far behind in the polls earlier, McGovern outspent Abdnor two-to-one and repeatedly criticized Abdnor's refusal to debate him, thereby drawing attention to a slight speech defect Abdnor had.
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Smith's father was a salesman and sometime manager at Angus & Robertson's bookstore who started a business that failed when Smith was 17, and his mother a housewife. His maternal grandfather was pictorialist photographer Harold Cazneaux. As a child, Smith was considered academically hopeless and, having a speech defect, called himself 'Dick Miff'. From his home in East Roseville, Smith attended Primary School at Roseville Public School at which, for the Fifth Grade, he ranked academically 45th in a class of 47.
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"This was his way of overcoming shyness and an early speech defect, with determination and energy".Burkhart Schneider, Pio XII, 10 He was also interested in stamp collecting and Archaeology. The latter would manifest itself years later in Divino afflante Spiritu, in which he encouraged going back to the language, culture and society of ancient Israel, in order to better understand the Old Testament. To gain time for his many interests, Eugenio from early on forced himself to methodical work and prayer habits.
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The book tells the story of its main characters' final term at Cricklepit Combined School which is based on St. Sidwell's School Exeter where Gene Kemp taught. The book is principally narrated by 'Tyke' Tiler, a bold and athletic twelve- year-old with the reputation of being a troublemaker. Tyke's best friend Danny Price has a speech defect, which means Tyke often has to translate for him. Danny has a helpless air which leads him to depend on his often exasperated friend.
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Born in Crewe, Cheshire, Maynard was left with cerebral palsy and a speech defect when he was strangled by the umbilical cord at birth. At the age of 22 he developed epilepsy, meaning he needs to be teetotal to avoid having seizures. He attended a special needs school between the ages of three and five before transferring to mainstream education. He attended St Ambrose College, a grammar school based in Altrincham, and went on to obtain a first class history degree at University College, Oxford.
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At the end of the book, she and Ram are married. Shankar: A gentle friend who has a speech defect and is Swapna Devi's unacknowledged son who is bitten by a mad dog, gets rabies and dies. When he was very young, he caught his mother and uncle in bed together and, as a result, his mother kicked him out. He still has the mind of a six-year-old boy and cries out coherently for his "Mummy", in his dreams, when he is delirious from rabies.
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In most Spanish-speaking territories and regions, guttural or uvular realizations of are considered a speech defect. Generally the single flap , spelled r as in cara, undergoes no defective pronunciations, but the alveolar trill in rata or perro is one of the last sounds learned by children and uvularization is likely among individuals who fail to achieve the alveolar articulation. This said, back variants for (, or ) are widespread in rural Puerto Rican Spanish and in the dialect of Ponce,Navarro-Tomás, T. (1948). El español en Puerto Rico.
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Bhardwaj gave the twins verbal impediments to show that the world has now been so hardwired to convoluted and calamitous communication that it needs silence or a speech defect to hash things out." He continued, "[w]ith some glitches, Bhardwaj has almost re-birthed the Hindi film". The film also explores sex and sexuality, which according to Bedi were explored in a "radically different and refreshing" way, and the director "daringly takes it a step further". When Sweety becomes pregnant, the couple "decide to carry the pregnancy to term after a bit of hesitation.
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Bertha Bunny, apart from blonde hair and feminine attire, looked much like Bugs in drag. She had a speech defect, resulting in her pronouncing parrot farm as carrot farm, which made Bugs think she owned a carrot farm. The release of the film Space Jam (1996) introduced a new female rabbit character, Lola Bunny, who almost completely supplanted Honey as both a merchandising figure and Bugs' sweetheart. During the movie's tenure in the theaters, and for some time thereafter, Lola appeared on practically every merchandising item released by Warners or its licensees (whether or not they were tied into the movie).
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Farrer was born in Marylebone, London into a well- to-do family who resided in Clapham, North Yorkshire. Due to a speech defect and numerous operations on a cleft palate, he was educated at home. He developed a passionate and lifelong enthusiasm for high places and the mountain plants that grow there. By 10 years of age he was a well-qualified field botanist with a "fair knowledge of plant anatomy." At 14 years he made his first rock garden in an abandoned quarry. He entered Balliol College, Oxford at 17 years of age and graduated in 1902.
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His dark comedy Please Lock Me Away was a Finalist at the Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas) 2014 New Play competition. Moses, The Author, a comedy about the biblical Moses, "shows the 120-year-old lawgiver on his last day on earth as he races to finish the Torah" Heinze said the play "is a 'midrash' that imagines how Moses might have dealt with the series of crushing setbacks that faced him, from having a speech defect to being told that could not enter the Promised Land." Moses, The Author had a World Premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2014, won a place in the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater (2014), and had an extended run at the SoHo Playhouse in Manhattan.
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