I suffer from SCA and the most embarrassing part of my condition is the decline in my speech. I'm waiting to see a Speech Therapist, but might be six feet under by that time. Canadian Health System is not the best right now, like many others in the world.My best tip to help with speech decline, is to go to Tongue Twisters online. Practice some of them daily (out loud) and try not to laugh too much. They are hilarious, and after all, laughter is supposed to be the best medicine.
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One bit of advice I was given by my speech therapist is to slow your speech down don’t try to rush what your saying, it also gives me time to think of an alternative word if I can’t say a certain word. X
Hi I did the speech therapy course with Ataxia there is a waiting list not sure if they do it in Canada but you could askThe therapist sent us some Utube videos which are voice exercises which helped sorry I don't know how to link them to here
They should put them on Ataxia website but maybe you go on U Tube and put in speech exercise they might come up
The best advice I can give that hasn’t already been given NEVER be embarrassed about something that is out of your control and part of a bad disability.
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