Longer processing times are common for autistic people. But did you know that many of us have a defined difference in the way that we communicate? A proxy of speech or AOS is expressed as a trouble saying what you want to say, correctly and consistently. It's all down to the way that we process plan out speech patterns and coordinate our mouths to produce it. Today we're going to be talking about speech Apraxia, which is something that's been making its rounds through the autistic community, as something that's really come about from some research that we did with some children. They found that a large proportion of autistic children that they taught or they looked at or they studied had some kind of speech Apraxia. And going off the fact that a lot of autistic people, a lot of autistic children, grow up to be autistic adults, it makes sense that some of us will have some Apraxia for the rest of our lives or at least for a large proportion of our life. So you may be thinking what the absolute hell is speech Apraxia? Why are you talking about this? Why is it interesting? It is actually a really, really cool concept because it really explains a lot of the ways that I fumble up when communicating with other people. Or actually some of the difficulties that I have sometimes with trying to say certain words and then not being able to say them again or saying stuff and then highlighting the bits that I'm not supposed to with my voice. Basically the way that it expresses and a lot of people is inconsistencies in Ara. In, oh my god, see there we go. Inconsistent errors in speech, you may say a complex word right once and then you try to replicate it again and you really struggle. You might want to say discombobulation but then dis-discombobulation, you know, that kind of experience, that's what it sounds like. It can also be groping for sounds and now that might sound a little bit spicy, a little bit neuro-spicy but it basically means that you might say something multiple times before saying it right. Another example of it would be to do it properly. I don't know if I'm saying properly right but it's basically the rhythm and inflections that you use to emphasise the meaning in what you're saying. You might say that I want to emphasise the meaning in my speech because I want you to make sure that the emphasising is very, very strong so that's the kind of the core message that I'm trying to say. But if I say the rhythm or inflections that emphasise the meaning of speech are very important and you can it, although I'm saying the same words, well I didn't say the same words but the meaning of it changes because I'm highlighting a certain word. That's the kind of experience that I have quite a lot. So things like atypical expressions of rhythm, tone and stress. Speech-rhythm is the arrangement of spoken words alternating stress and non-stressed elements. Riven might be so I was going to the shops and then I got on the bus and then I went home and I found my wife in bed with another man. So you could say that so that's kind of a good example of rhythm but you might say so I got home and then I went on the bus and then I sort of, well I took a little bit of a detour and then I came back and then I found my wife in bed with another man. You know it doesn't really have the same sort of impact when you say it because you don't really have that rhythm to it. It could also be something like tone. Tone of voice is a nonverbal aspect of speaking. Tone is intonation or is sometimes called inflection. You know like the inflections at the end of your speech to signal that you're asking a question. In phonics stress is the degree of emphasis given to a sound or syllable in speech. Riven or inflections is meant to emphasize the meaning of speech rather than rid more inflections that emphasize the meaning in speech. I give the example on my Instagram. I tried my best to try and give a good example but it's really hard to do it when you're not actually speaking. So I gave people a statement like the car is red as sort of an example of what you might say in order to sort of emphasize what you're trying to get across. But for me it could turn into the car is a red color and it's a car that is red. Yes. That's the example that I gave. It's a little bit of an exaggeration but I felt like I had to exaggerate it because trying to express the way that you say things with words. Rather than using a really complex way of sort of setting things out and using punctuation and not even then like people may not understand. So it's easier for me to explain it with my actual voice. So I guess what I want to ask you is have you ever experienced say happen again ever ever ever experienced speech a proxy? Is it something that you weren't aware of? Oh my god. Is it something that you weren't aware of before coming across this video or you've recently come across it and you've started to kind of look back on things that you say or whenever you have a conversation with somebody and you slip up and you think, oh my brain must be off. It's like no, it's probably some form of speech I practice I guess it's similar but it's a very interesting concept and it definitely opened my eyes to the way that I communicate with people and some of the things that you know as autistic people with speech, a proxy are made different in terms of our communication ability in terms of our speech socializing. So I hope you have very much enjoyed this. Remember to like you, subi. Follow the podcast, put lots of cool cool episodes coming out in season two. 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