Speech Therapy Quotes:

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.

topic: Mother, Teacher, Giving Up, Speech Therapy, Yaks

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

- Emo Philips

source: "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

topic: Funny, Brother, Humor, Speech Therapy

I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

- Tim Gunn

source: "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin,, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

topic: School, Tired, Years, Speech Therapy

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

- Alasdair Gray

source: "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.

topic: Lying, Heart, Speech, Speech Therapy

You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.

- Karl Mecklenburg

source: Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group

topic: Dream, Children, Kids, Speech Therapy, Lisp

When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.

- Temple Grandin

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Mom, Mother, Kids, Speech Therapy

I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

- Felipe Esparza

topic: Home, Giving, Mexican, Speech Therapy, Stuttering

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

- Walter Dean Myers

topic: Years, Frustrated, Speech, Speech Therapy