Hey Trace,

Would you run that story by me again? You were talking too fast...

:)

>When I was in kindergarten I had to attend speech therapy because I pronounced 'ask' as 'axe.' It was repetive speaking of different sounds until I could pronounce 'ask' correctly. In reality, I just learned to pronounce it more slowly so the sounds would be distinctive. I used to speak so fast that all my vowels and consonents ran into each other. I still do that at times when I am in a press for time. My dauther does it too now and the teachers complain that she speaks so quickly that no one can understand her so they make her speak slowly in school. A counselor actually taped my daughter speaking hoping to use it get my daughter speech therapy (as I did) and when she played it back slower it was obvious that she was enunciating correctly but it was just so fast you couldn't tell. She went to one therapy session and the therapist informed her to speak more slowly so people could understand her better. She told her that people could not listen as fast as she could speak.
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