#language disability

hi.

1. am not nonverbal, am semiverbal. able speak mouth but difficult n with problems (short phrases, stutter, wrong words, wrong grammar, etc.)

2. being nonverbal / semiverbal does not 'equate' typing with bad grammar. some nonverbal semiverbal people type with correct grammar. some not. it individual.

3. some nonverbal semiverbal people are nonverbal semiverbal with only mouth speech problems. when brain mouth disconnect or disarthria or other reasons. can form sentences fine just can't say it by mouth. some not. some have other language problems. which impact forming sentences, finding words, etc.

4. nir semiverballness impact not only mouth. impact thoughts. impact language forming. translate thoughts into words is difficult. connect words together n form sentences is difficult. so not only speak weird. but type weird too.

have both receptive and expressive

means have hard time understanding new words, learning new words, connecting new words to concepts, saying words, recalling words, putting words in right order, spelling words correctly, etc.

ofc i would have trouble with new pronouns

i am not "hypothetical"

i am right here and /begging/ for accomodations only to be brush aside as ableist or transphobic bc "no one actually like that, stop using disabled ppl"

not saying have to use he/she/they/it. can use name or aptnouns or any other thing

The Nurse Shark || Beth Riley When she first meets someone, she tries to speak as perfectly polished “Haole” {regular American English}. When she starts to relax with a person, she also relaxes and starts to slip into pidgin, which is way easier for her and less taxing in a way that she doesn’t have to think about. Which lets her communicate faster, if not clearer. The hardest part of most English for her are consonant digraphs {th, ch, etc}. She tends to drop certain digraphs, or substitute letters she thinks she’s heard. EX: Breath is more likely to come out as “brea’d” if she’s being “lazy” or “casual” or as “breat’” if she’s trying harder to express herself.

She might engage in conversation with weird, random non-sequiturs, likely due to mishearing/misinterpreting something spoken to her. There are also certain words or terms that she may not even realise she’s incorrectly pronouncing. {{Granberries rather than cranberries, Bads instead of bats.}}

my teachers all know that sometimes we're unable to speak (we're not going to tell our teachers that we're a system/we have OSDD-1B) but it seems like my spanish teacher just doesn't care at all.

The client, btw, is a young person who loves interacting but finds it difficult and stressful to turn his thoughts into sentences.