Toastmasters Inspirational Speech on Happiness
Published on Feb 19, 2014My Boston Toastmasters speech recording on living life happy and surviving a stroke and moving forward with your life in spite of life's set backs and hard ships.
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Ataxic Dysarthria Speaker Give Toastmaster
- Speech 4 Minimal Reading or Notes
Uploaded on Jun 8, 2009
I got ataxic dysarthria with a cerebellar AVM/ stroke last year and am relearning to talk via toastmasters and going to the UW Speech clinic, where I do speech therapy and the Lee Silverman Voice Training method of relearning to talk. This speech was a small triumph as I barely used my notes. The video is hard to understand because the mike on the camera was screwy, and hey, I still talk to fast. When I don't read something, I talk faster...Do you have dysarthria? Please write me and tell me how you are doing. I am alone here and feeling my way toward progress alone, every day. I would like to share your growth and experiences with dysarthria...I hear that dysarthria without aphasia is rare, and ataxic is even rarer... write me, please...
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Ataxic Dysarthia Toastmasters - Speech 5 Balance
Uploaded on Aug 14, 2009Using UTube in conjunction with Speech therapy at the UW to chart progress and my intelligibility...This is Speech Number 5 - Toastmasters August 12, 2009
I am disabled with Ataxic Dysarthia, using Toastmasters to learn to talk well again. This was a 7 minute speech. True goal was to read the whole thing and not speed up - to talk slowly and intelligibly for the entire speech. I had one meltdown and apologized when I tried to talk off the cuff, stopped reading and lost my place. Overall, not bad. The room obeyed my direction and understood what I was telling them to do. Compare this to my speech in January and I have improved by using my UW speech therapy techniques. Brain Surgery in March also helped resolved breathing issues from cerebellar AVM
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Ataxia / Ataxic Dysarthria Alice - Speech 11 Slowly and Clearly
Uploaded on Nov 23, 2009This was my first advanced manual speech and a very conscious redo of speech 10. I practiced, trying to speak more slowly and clearly, and also tried to appear more relaxed and be less telling/pointing in my gestures. Look at speech 10 and see if you see any improvements
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Ataxia / Ataxic Dysarthria Alice - Speech Advanced - Black Eye
Published on May 3, 2012I have ataxic dysarthria from a cerebellar AVM stroke four years ago. I have been doing Toastmasters for three years to improve my speech. You will find many of my speeches' on UTube, as I use UTube to track my progress.
Today's speech title is "How my double chin gave me a black eye."
Humor is the hardest thing for someone with a speech defect to do.
Yet, I have made great strides, getting my speaking rate from 300 words per minute down to 180 words per minute. I have been in speech therapy at the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic and present a speech at toastmasters at least every six weeks.
Humor is the last challenge as it requires pacing, good phrasing, excellent clarity and enunciation and vocal variety. My biggest challenge is that when I get engaged, passionate or laugh at my own jokes, I talk fast because I am thinking about WHAT I'm saying instead of HOW/disciplining myself to say it as I have been taught in Therapy.
Kind of like a foreigner who reverts to their native tongue when they get excited. Your brain forgets to do the translation into slow, methodical, clear speech that is understandable.
Working on it, but getting better.
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Stroke is No Joke - David Vrudny 2011
Uploaded on Dec 14, 2011Standard YouTube License @ HiNoonTM
Inspiration After Stroke
Uploaded on Mar 22, 2007SSTattler: Video is poor but it is in Ottawa...!
After a stroke many people think they cannot do anything. Hamish and John have decided to run. This comes from our new Toastmasters Club -- www.strokesurvivors.ca -- Ottawa.
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Toastmasters - Speech #1 Who Am I Now?
Published on May 6, 2013I have secondary parkinsons and dystonia due to a stroke from a bad scuba tank. I joined Toastmasters to improve my speech so that I can one day be a motivational speaker, educator and life-coach.
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Paul 1st Talk After Stroke
Uploaded on Jan 6, 2012Paul's 1st talk at Toastmasters after stroke. Folktale-Tar Baby.
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Paul's 2nd Toastmasters Talk After Stroke
Published on Mar 29, 2012SSTattler: Turn up your sound!
Some boy scout memories. Toastmasters talk March 1, 2012.
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