KnitWit: Rantings of a Rabid Knitter

Comment by Sheila

August 14, 2007 @ 5:43 am

Carry, nothing about you is annoying. I enjoy all your podcasts.

Comment by Jill

August 14, 2007 @ 11:40 am

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to tell us a story!!! I love each and every one of them and love you for doing this for all of us. You touch my heart and make my day special when I get to hear one of your stories. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great week, too!

Comment by Linda

August 15, 2007 @ 8:39 am

I always enjoy your podcasts and I think you sound great! Your story today reminds me of the years I spent in speech therapy in elementary school(I had trouble with r, s, and l). My overall experience was much better than yours, though…speech class was full of fun games and it wasn’t until I was much older that I realized that I was in “therapy”. I realize now how lucky I was that my speech problem was caught early and that I was in a school with the resources to have several full-time speech therapists. Unfortanately, since I was in speech I missed out on handwriting class, and now my handwriting is deplorable!

Thanks for a wonderful podcast!

Comment by Anne

August 16, 2007 @ 12:10 pm

Carry-

Just wanted to say thanks for your wonderful podcast! Really enjoy your stories, fiber related or not, although the fiber ones are my favorites. Look forward to each new show.

Comment by Johnny

August 17, 2007 @ 10:36 pm

This was such a great podcast! I was in speech therapy as a kid for sillibant s’s (AKA a lisp.) It was a similarly negative experience for me too. You should read the first chapter of “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris; it’s all about his experience with speech therapy. Anyway, thanks for this wonderful podcast!

Comment by Charles

September 14, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

What a touching story! I really enjoyed listening to it. I have not experienced anything like speech therapy, but as an ESL teacher, I am constantly advocating on behalf of my learners who will never speak with a native-like accent, because their tongues can’t be trained very well after adolescence. Other teachers just don’t get it and what ‘perfection’. Thank God for teachers like Miss Bell (was it?), who make a difference. That’s my goal every year, even though I never find out later on.

Best wishes for the upcoming stories!

Comment by Katrina

April 24, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

My youngest daughter (now 12 yrs old) has had to deal with speech difficulties. We knew about it very early on because 1. we couldn’t understand her when she talked, and she loved to talk, and I often had to have my older daughter (now 16) translate for me and 2. she had been to an ear/nose/throat specialist for multiple ear infections.

The specialist told us that the bone/plates at the top of her mouth didn’t grow together correctly and nothing surgically needed to be done, but she would definitely need some therapy. Luckily there was an excellent speech therapist in her elementary school that worked with her from kindergarten to 5th grade.

She didn’t get teased too much, some yes, but when she did say something, it was always so intelligent and witty that everyone could tell despite the way she spoke that she’s very smart. I think it helped that she took karate lessons for a few years and won several trophies at tournaments. Boys don’t want to tease a girl who can beat the shit out of them.

Now, she speaks fine. She’s still conscious of it and often speaks softly in groups, but over all, I think she’s managed through it very well! I think she’s amazing! She’s 12 and already knows how to knit, crochet, sew and do cross stitch. She makes some pretty wonderful things and get’s all A’s in school as well.