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I'm pretty bad at RTS because I get overwhelmed by the amount of options you have at any given moment. Star Craft, Warcraft, Age of Empires - doesn't matter. :D

I think I also remember building times for units to be super long. Do I remember correctly?

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

I remember seeing a friend of mine play Supreme Commander back in the day and it looked fun but hella complicated. I remember there being some green-coded race that had some sort of princess as a leader? They have a spaceship that looks like a donut

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

That's so cool (heh)! How did you end up in that profession?

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

That's exactly what you'd have learned in therapy, so kudos to you! Pretty awesome that you thought of using your mother as a mirror for yourself. And you being made fun of, even though rude, explains why you were motivated enough to work on it yourself even.

I just realised something. In my previous comments, I put "correct" into quotation marks because in Germany there is no /th/ (voice or voiceless), so working on a lisp is more of an aesthetics kind of question because there would be no misunderstandings in German if a speaker used a /th/ instead of an /s/. Assuming you're from an English-speaking country, it's also great that you worked on it since your lisp likely led to misunderstandings, right?

And so cool that you're a voice actor now. Funny how things work out! Good thing you worked on the lisp, then, since it likely would have prevented your being able to pursue a speaking career.

Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

Audiology 💀 We have an audiologist/phoniatrician that used to be our school's medical "lead", so to speak, that is super knowledgeable when it comes to her field and did a lot of scientific work and research for FEES, but she is such a terrible teacher. Every class she's taught are traumatised by her teaching, which is such a shame because she knows so much.

We've got a couple graduates who work with her - they seem to be able to ignore her ways of being a terrible human being :D

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

It's a very important subject to talk about and it's awesome that you've dedicated yourself to doing that

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

I'm sorry to hear that - I hope you've had the chance to heal from your experiences 💜

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

I can imagine. You essentially need to reprogram your brain and the motorical execution of how you produce the s-sounds which takes a lot of time and effort. In some cases, there are even external factors that could even prevent you from learning the "correct" pronunciation, like the way your teeth have grown, the way your upper and lower jaw bones are set in relation to one another, and more. You'd need to go to an orthodontist first to achieve results in the speech therapy.

Do you remember what kind of lisp it was and why you had it? Did your tongue protrude between your front teeth when producing s-sounds, for example, or was the tip of your tongue right at your upper front teeth?

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

Sure :D you probably subconsciously used techniques we'd use

Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

Ah, that's interesting. A common problem of studying logopedics in Germany that I've heard of is that you don't get enough time for practical applications of the theory you learn about, hence an apprenticeship is preferred to a university degree. How was it with your course of studies?

I'm also interested in ASD, specifically coupled with late-talking children. I don't think ASD is a separate subject in school but rather something a therapist needs to be interested in intrinsically and needs to learn about in additional trainings, but it's just fascinating how differently it manifests in people and what effect it has on their speech development and interactions with peers.

But I'm not sure if I really want to work with children in general. I'd rather focus on conveying specific logopedic goals to adults who come to therapy out of their own volition and interest in their own betterment instead of constantly having to think about how to motivate children, how to put a therapy goal into a certain game that interests them etc etc. It's obviously also challenging and difficult since you need a good feel for how to interact with children, but it's just not for me. Currently trying my best with two patients I have (one has DVD, the other has a couple phonological language development disorders mixed in with some problems with speech motorics), but it's just so much more challenging for me compared to the voice therapy I'm giving. Adults - that's where it's at for me.

Yea, LSVT is quite rigid, I feel like. It also goes against everything we've learned about physiological vocalisation which feels weird. I also don't like that they're kind of "cult-like" when it comes to advertising the effectiveness of their method in addition to the secrecy of the therapy itself. At least give a bit of an outline about what your method is about? Plus the costs... Sure, the course's costs would probably be covered by the practise or clinic I'm working at, but the fact you have pay for knowledge in the first place is just so annoying. I get that people need to be reimbursed for their work and need to earn money to live, but it's just so much money. But I guess it's worth it if you have a lot of patients with Parkinson's.

I hear you about dysphagia. I've had that same realisation in my last internship at a clinic. Probably around 95% of patients I've seen there had some form of dysphagia with varying degrees of severity, and it's awesome to see how much the work we do helps them. To me it feels like it's not a lot that we do outside teaching patients a couple swallowing maneuvers, stimulating their nerves with citric acid or spice, or adjusting their meal plan to something easier to process, but it's so much more to them.

Thank you! I'm in last year of studies, so it'll be quite stressful and challenging for the next half year or so, but I'm hopeful and happy to have found a profession that's so multi-faceted.

Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

That's so nice of you, thank you - doing my best :) I'm in my last year of school, so I'll only be having less and less time to post content, but I'll still try my best.

I have 2h of commuting everyday - that's when I usually post stuff if I'm not at home :D

The end of my studies is in sight, fortunately ✨

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

That's so cool! I wish there were more artistic jobs people can express themselves in.

It's a skill to know how to teach yourself, I feel like. :) It's obviously good to get an official education but to know what you need in addition to that is a skill in itself

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

What's your favourite bread recipe if you have one?

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

Always appreciate your artistic contributions - can't stress it enough :)

Are you self-taught or did you go to art school or something similar?

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Druid @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

That's so cool! Did you have to go to university for that or was it an apprenticeship too? And US I assume? And what did you specialise in?

I'm super interested in neurology and voice therapy so I could see myself working in a clinic with dysphagia and aphasia patients, maybe also dysarthrophonia or Parkinson's voice therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, but I'm a little sceptical). The former wasn't really a focus of mine and a little scary given that you can literally kill a patient if you do your therapy wrong, but my last internetship at a clinic showed me how interesting the field is and how much quality of life is to be regained once you've treated the dysphagia. Didn't really expect that. We just got a new class about laryngectomy which is also super interesting.

Druid @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

When you're German and don't have "Mäuse" but just a singular "Maus"