Re: Logopaedy - Now "Move Your Lips"

[Dick Swindler <DSwind2940@xxxxxxx>]

I know many PWP experience difficulty being heard and understood.  It has
been one of Dick's complaints, too.  I always hear it spoken of in terms of
voice volume, but no one ever mentions that PWP may not be enunciating
clearly, besides.  If you think of the "facial mask" that accompanies PD, it
would make sense that maybe the lips, and even the tongue and other vocal
structures, aren't moving as freely or as much as in normal speech.

 In other words, I suspect that if PWP would also think in terms of moving
their lips more when they speak, they could be more easily understood.  It's
certainly my observation that when I have the most difficulty understanding
Dick, I can hear sounds, but can't distinguish words.  It's as if I'm hearing
vowels and mumbling, with no clear consonants.  Just a thought, fwiw.  I
don't know if it would help to try practicing speaking in front of a mirror,
concentrating on the actual movements of producing speech.  Wouldn't hurt,
anyway.


Margie, cg for Dick, 55/18

<<   It sounds like you are experiencing what a lot of other PWP do with their
 voice.  That is, diminution in volume, loudness, almost like hoarseness.  One
 of the things about this situation, is that we have "re-set" our own
 screening ability as to intelligibility - we think we're adequately loud; but
 others say "What?and Hunhh?" frequently enough to know that this is a real
 phenom. >>