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THREAD. Ok, this must be said. To everyone who is down on Joe Biden for sounding, slow, old, confused last night -- let's put things in perspective. Biden has been managing his fluency disorder (also called stuttering) his whole life. #WeSpeechies #SLPeeps #StutteringAwareness
Stuttering is exacerbated by stress, and Trump knows this. He was trying to fluster Biden, to make him stutter so that he sounds "dumb." Despite the circumstances, Biden did a REMARKABLE job managing the stress and using the exact strategies we as SLPs often teach.
Many of these strategies, to the naive person, may make him sound slow or confused. For example: 1) Speak slowly, and especially ease into the first word -- to the naive person this can make you sound slow, but in fact it's strategic.
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THREAD - Today’s THE day.
With no graduation ceremonies in sight, I’m getting Mr8 & Mr9 to help me celebrate my #PhD conferral today!
We made a #TwitterMind themed #SLPhD bonnet (featuring brain & blue bird), a ceremonial mace & the boys made me a certificate #FirstGenPhD PhD bonnet made of black velvet, with gold tassels and featuBrain made from brown fabric and ropeYellow certificate with red tassle saying 'congrats mum'Gold upcycled craft mace
And we all dressed the part πŸŽ“πŸ§‘πŸ½β€πŸŽ“πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸŽ“πŸ§‘πŸ½β€πŸŽ“
Mr8 felt it was imperative I wear the bonnet to drop them off at school… 🀣πŸ₯°πŸ€˜πŸ½ Smiling woman wearing PhD bonnet (featuring a brain and birdMr9 and Mr8 wearing black gowns, mortar board hats and holdiA woman and two boys smiling at the camera wearing their PhD
A huge shout out to my epic #SLPhD supervisory team @BronwynHemsley @LeanneTogher @s_palm @stephendann, my @UTS_GSH colleagues, and my wonderful thesis examiners πŸ€—
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