In his early essay collections, Sedaris wrote about the homophobic speech therapy he was forced to endure as a child, his experimentation with drugs and his stint working as a Santaland elf at Macy's.
" Which means he receives a range of support services through his school that includes speech therapy, physical therapy, other assistants as part of his educational year" .
Treatment involves physical therapy to strengthen the muscles, speech therapy and special devices that assist in mobility like canes, braces, and wheelchairs.
And also, Peter, I just want to say, I listened to the episode again and hearing about the dyslexia stuff and some of the speech issues myself, I went to speech therapy for about six to seven years as a kid.
And so when a young child, he was three at the time, gets an autism diagnosis, there are so many different things that need to happen as far as getting him into different therapies and speech therapy.
When you were doing, like, speech therapy to overcome your lisp and you learned how to, like, pronounce your T's clearly and your S's, and you learned to, like, really clearly enunciate... Yes.
All these kids had been told at the beginning was they were going to be given some speech therapy sessions, not of course that they were part of a bigger experiment.
She said with good medical care and speech therapy, most patients whose aphasia is related to a stroke or another brain injury should see some improvement.
And so I eventually left the workforce and became a full-time mom caring for both kids and helping my son with his appointments, his speech therapy, his occupational therapy, all of that.