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| Re: My voice is greatly improved. -- SDnoMORE | Post Reply | Top of thread | Forum |
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Posted by: TMK ® 05/13/2008, 08:35:55 Edit |
Congratulations on your improvement. I have read this thread of conversation with great interest. I was diagnosed with ABSD in January of 2007 and, according to my speech therapist who is very experienced with SD, I had a BAD case of SD. I diligently worked on the breathing and vocal exercises I was given and, for about 6 - 7 months, it looked like I would never get my "normal" voice back at all. However, I continued to be a fanatic about my exercises - many of which echo the ones posted by SDnoMore in his post - the reading out loud, the breathing. I wasn't able to hum at all so that one was out but . . . Anyway - after about 10 months of therapy I noticed that every once in a while a word would "pop out" normally when I spoke. My therapist and I took those words and worked with them gradually building my voice. Now I can pretty much talk normally. When I say normally, I do not mean that all of my SD symptoms are gone - I still have problems with unvoiced consonants and different things at times. But - I am able to speak and the sound of the speech is close to what I sounded like pre-SD. I don't consider myself cured. I just think that somehow, I managed, through a LOT of HARD work, to retrain my vocal chords to allow me to talk. I don't question it - I rejoice in it! If you would like to hear the difference in my voice - go to my podcasts and listen to the early ones and the most recent ones. By the way - what kind of "proof" would be needed to show improvement? TMK
Related link: Learning To Live With SD |
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