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Hello @truk182 and welcome to Mayo Connect. I can understand your frustration with speech - since you are an educator, communication is an important part of your career. You say you struggle with speech. So that we can better understand this, as you feel comfortable, please let us know more about this struggle. Are your words garbled? Do you have problems forming words? Has speech therapy been suggested? Teresa

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Here are the sounds I have trouble pronouncing clearly: s, d, double t's, th. I went through speech therapy and I improved over the first 6-9 months and I was fitting with a mouthpiece, similar to a kid wearing a retainer after braces. It is thicker which gives my tongue something to touch when I talk. That has helped as well. I don't go therapy any more; I guess they believe it's not a problem. People say it's hardly noticeable but to me it's pronounced. Speaking... speaking Spanish, more specifically, has been my life for as long as I can remember but now I can't do that as effectively as I once did. That just kills me, figuratively speaking. I have never been the most social person either but now I sometimes I withdraw from social conversations for fear not being understood.