CODA BROTHERS: Speech Therapy

The CODA Brothers tell of their childhood experiences in Speech Therapy.

[@melisagoad8180]

I have a twin and we both needed Speech Therapy. I was terrified until I got into the classroom with my sister and found out that our speech therapist could sign! She had learned some ASL which made us feel right at home and all fears were gone! :)

[@Michelle-fm2iz]

That is awesome!

[@krystalstrickland9326]

I never knew about you guys until a deaf friend told me to look up your videos. I think they are AWESOME!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. What really struck me about this video was that you guys thought nothing really of your voice until you went to school. It is so great that you use sign language. When you went to a hearing school it must have been hard to adapt so fast to using your voice, because it is normally turned off when you sign. I think I would have been scared to go to the Speech Therapy, because it would be new and I would say my signing is my language. I think many hearing kids would not understand the different challenges coda's have to go though when first learning to use their voices and changing to adapt to the hearing world. You guys are so funny explaining the way hearing people are and its great because I could picture that so perfectly! Hearing people should have to understand deaf cultures just like deaf people having to understand hearing culture!

[@marthalois5120]

"Wow my classifiers are amazing!" hahaha

[@ZeldasSword]

That is the best part of the whole video

[@zemanjel]

When I was in speech therapy the lady was trying to get me to say my "s's" so she stuck her finger in my mouth to I guess help me say them right. I then proceeded to bite her finger. Then the next time I saw her she started to use the tounge presser. I thought to myself why is she doing that. I was like 6 years old at the time.

[@codymatteson8091]

Being the oldest CODA out of three I struggled the most with speech. I was in speech pathology classes until 4th grade!! When they told me I was finally done tears of joy were coming out of my eyes. I couldn't have been more excited!

[@aliwellik9361]

I am currently getting my Master's in speech pathology. I promise that things have changed since the two of you received therapy!

[@stariecaylor9777]

I am really hard of hearing and my mom is deaf and my dad is hard of hearing. My brother and sister are also hard of hearing. They can hear more than I can. I am still learning how to sign properly. My parents taught my siblings and I what they called the "family sign language". For 8 years I was in speech therapy, but it didn't help me much. I have found that it is so much easier to sign and pretend to not be able to hear people when they were talking. I taught my hearing friends some of the "family sign language" so they can talk to me where I can understand them better.

[@mylalaLAN]

"MY CLASSIFIERS ARE AMAZING!!" LOL

[@akgreengirl9876]

Thank you so much for these videos! My three year old son is HOH and we are all learning ASL as a family and I've recently wondered what if the roles were reversed. Your videos give wonderful insight into this amazing culture. I love it!!

[@ettinakitten5047]

You probably didn't need speech therapy. My guess is if they'd just waited a year or two with you going to a hearing school you'd have ended up talking just fine. My Dad had a heavy Flemish accent when he first went to Kindergarten, because his parents were second generation Belgian, and he didn't get any speech therapy. The teachers just assumed he'd figure it out, and he did. Young children pick up accents easily just from exposure. Speech therapy is only necessary if they actually have a disability affecting speech, not just a lack of exposure to the accent.

[@MIS315]

this is a great channel! I'll be watching frequently to keep up with my signing

[@samanthafeaganes4878]

X, th, s, and z were and are the worst sounds for me. "sixteen" is said as different words to me. But yeah, we used to play games in speech therapy and we were rewarded when we did really well.

[@kreme5c]

You guys are hilarious!! Sign language is such a beautiful and animated language! I am a Speech Pathologist and your memories of therapy are funny. Funny how we still use paper/tissue sometimes when eliciting the /p/ (yup I just used the slashes lol). I make it in to a game though. you two are awesome :)

[@Animestarkidaddict27]

I absolutely adore your signing styles!! Also as a trainee interpreter love the way you interpret yourselves! Fantastic video! Keep it up :)

[@BBarNavi]

2:10 "My classifiers are amazing!"

[@Ebb5845]

You guys are hysterical! As a fluently signing speech pathologist, I always feel bad that most SLP’s refused to sign. Every Deaf person I ever met thought I was an interpreter or teacher of the Deaf and when I told them, their faces dropped but then they quickly wanted to find out more about me.🤟🏼☺️

[@ASLTheatre]

I'm not Deaf or a Coda but I remember I had to have Speech Therapy after a car accident. I understand why it is loathed and frankly I did not like it.

[@SammieSue7]

BEEN THERE! DONE THAT!!!! I could not say the letter R! and could never get the world caterpillar right….. sadly still can't! LOL You guys are awesome!!!

[@vanilla0307]

Where have you been my entire life!! Man fun fact I had to be in speech therapy up till I graduated high school then I was considered an ELL student until I finally finished my first year of college... struggle is reallll #CODAPRIDE!!

[@Turnernpooch2]

I HATED speech therapy. 6.5 years of awful. *Sigh* -Smashing my face around, and blowing on me. It's likely the reason I have such a huge personal "bubble" at this point. SLP's are boundary disordered.

[@ErinRebecca15]

Favorite part when Andy says "wow, my classifiers are amazing!!" haha

[@susanwood592]

I had speech therapy by the school nurse in 1st and 2nd for one hour everyday. The sounds you talk about I never did learn so I laughed at you guys I thought I was going to loose it. My last testing on my ears the audiologist yelled at me you are profoundly deaf. I couldn’t be happier. Please show us more of you two. My kids are CODAS. They need to know what is normal and funny. If you can’t laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at?

[@aarontiffany5911]

I am a speech pathologist learning ASL and I almost wet my pants watching this. LMAO! So wrong!. I swear we're not all like that but then again I work with bottle feeding babies :-)

[@tarafulis]

I worked as an interpreter for a grade K girl and the speech pathologist was horrible! She made little eye contact, she got her signs wrong ( we used Signed Exact English ) and I used to sit beside the student who was very bright and just sign under the table beside her " never mind, never mind." :P We more or less did our best to sit through the sessions with out laughing or rolling our eyes.

[@ASLTheatre]

Back in 2011 I had a car accident and needed speech therapy to strengthen my throat muscles so I can eat again. While we were doing speech therapy I did not care for it.

[@ak5659]

The thing I hate about speech therapists is that they are usually mono lingual English speakers who view every thin in terms of deafness and sign.... even if the exact same thing happens with hearing people all over the world. Most of the world grows up exposed to multiple languages at the same time and nobody is confused.

[@VanceMcCarterGalaxy]

BUT, I LOVE IT THIS SHOW CODED BROTHERS WITH SPEECH THERAPY IF CAN I DO UNDERSTANDING TRY DEAF AND MAKE I MYSELF AND CLAIM DOWN TOWARD BETTER LISTEN SOMETIME I WAS TURN OFF PUT DOWN MY VOLUME LITTLE LOW AND VERY CLEAR AND ALSO VERY FUNNY GUYS THEIR COMEDY AND IT'S WONDERFULLY THERE'S MORE WHO'S PERSON...

[@miekejacobs-tankink7955]

Grandson is a Coda and his Ford is a Dord. He can say the F and fffffff, but when you ask him how old he is, he is Door, not Four. Public school will have fun with him.

[@Shutupandsign]

BAHAHAHAHA "Oh, my classifiers are amazing..!!" BAHAHAHA OMG that's hilarious!! :)

[@ShadySadie29]

I loved speech class, but it was right in my school and I went into a colorful room with a shit ton of games and to my six year old mind it was fucking awesome, I got to miss class to play games! and the teacher was really nice. but she must not have been as good as yours because unlike you who got out in 6 months, I didn't get out for 9 years, and I still have an accent, but i'm not a coda, Ménière's disease, so some of the time in speech class I couldn't hear anyways!

[@guardian-of-life6771]

I'm only hard of hearing. I have been to a deaf school in Idaho for 6 years and then I went to public for 1 grade - to now a senior in high school. I have spent years in speech therapy and still am

[@jeannesquillante9444]

I’m a speech therapist and I’m fluent in American Sign Language! I got my degree at Gallaudet and so I swear we’re not all like that hahaha

[@kimgatherum2507]

they never told me why i was in speach and i kept saying this is stupid why do i have to say th over and over its a waist of time i wana go back to class they are watching a movie or eating cupcake or something. perhaps if they told me that I was saying fff instead of th way would have made more progress

[@sourpatchkidmurder13]

I never could make the k, c, g sounds. I still can't to this day. Haha. I hate speech class, especially with cued speech.

[@krissberry2115]

I hated speech, myself. It was the worst!!! And that over-exaggeration to my mom drove me insane!!

[@LukeWeAreNotRelated]

I'm hearing but I had some moderite to servere speach issues all of the sounds i had/have is in my first name so i was in speach until i was old enough to say no

[@gwendolynlathe5415]

my family used my voice after apeech therapy my family dont understand my voice because of speech therpaist ‘s accent

[@amandaschwarz5745]

I remember constantly having to watch my own lips in a mirror and mimicking the teacher. 5 years of that...on the plus side I'm pretty good at reading lips.....

[@AzaliaCoda]

Coda here... My sister and I, both Codas, were put into speech therapy in Kindergarten. I am the oldest child, family interpreter, and was in therapy for about 6 weeks. My sister however, was in therapy longer. I clearly remember she believed my mother's speech was correct and believed other people's speech, including the speech pathologist, was WRONG. She was in speech therapy for 2 years. Thanks for bringing back fond memories of childhood!

[@annepritz-hall1705]

I love your videos. I have a 2 year old grandson in speech therapy. His therapist, Meagan comes to the house. She is in her young thirties (no mole) and he loves her. His older brother says "its like a party" when she comes because she makes therapy fun. I remember the old culture. Thank God and new people for changing it. God bless.

[@GingerTwin2]

I'm an army brat. I was born in Texas and moved to Germany when I was four and started school there. No one at school could understand a word I said so they tested me for speech impediments, hearing problems, learning disabilities, etc. Turns out I just had a SUPER thick Southern accent (I pronounced door like 'dur'). I was in speech therapy for about two years to 'fix' it. Teacher was nice enough but I'm kind of sad about it, I could have been a Southern Debutante.

[@Dragonfly7189]

As a Coda, I entered school thinking my name was Anna, my siblings didn't even know how to pronounce my name, noone corrected my pronounciation of my name, in the 3rd grade a friends mother shook her head and said if your name is spelled E D N A, then your name is Edna, I left crying and told my older brother what she had said and he responded, she don't know nothing...finally 4th grade I began to go by my name! This can only happen to a Coda!!

[@danamerp1971]

i am from new zealand but now live in america, the way new zealand schools do things is very different from here my teacher didnt tell my mum that i had to go to speech therapy im pretty sure because she understood that my mum was a single mother who didnt have a job its hard to find one suitable for a deaf person so my teacher just worked with me at school now i cant remember anything from when she worked with me but my mum says that i would get mad and say " no! my mum is right!" oops :)

[@cedry123]

OMG!! i was born in AZ. but apparently had a perfect Brooklyn accent. Everyone thought my family was from new york when they heard me speak. Since in AZ a Brooklyn accent is considered 'bad form' I was sent to speech therapy in 'The Little blue room' at school for 3 years. My fellow students all had other speech impediments more serious tan mine ut one the ess i was marched into that little room twice a week for 3 years.

[@mrszebrasweet]

lol! when my son age 3 in preschool.. teacher and staff little worry about my son. he not talk only ASL.. then later talk like daddy voice. teacher and staff plus speech therapy had one n one practice abc and sound.. now he in Kindergarten age 6, the teacher know ASL make a time 5min sit quite with my son for practice sound then 10min speech therapy every 2 week. My son love go there, he said it was FUN doing on computer talk and it show all line things go up and down..

[@sarawuzhere]

Haha oh boy! My little coda was also referred to speech program but I said nope, give him time to socialize and he'd pick up... Sure enough, about 3 months later, his pre school teachers told me "Wow! You're so right" and they'd follow my guidance since then! I remember no one would understand him for a long time.. Fortunately, as a 3rd grade, he's doing very well in school!

[@sherrielewis3886]

The School sent my older son to Speech Therapy too. Other two daughters were pretty well when they were small

[@Al-kw3jh]

....aaaand subbed. Very funny!! Much love, Aleks

[@laneysblister1]

@signbabysign shhh this is their video. I've recently become "hard of hearing" and I understand them fine. It's funny! I love their videos! Get past the technicalities. This is a window into their culture. Appreciate it :)

[@divinegerbs]

I was in speech from preschool till about seventh grade. I hated reading card after card. It was a flip book with a metal spiral top and it felt like it would never end! Oh the joys of speech therapy! Lol

[@mavacat]

yup agreed, but I was happy that my mom dad taught me speak only because i was able to get to talk to hearing ppl real world not much deaf in some areas. stuff like that.. or certain places.. But i hated being forced.

[@tired1966]

She started with /b/? She WAS thorough! Whoa! I would think that you two would have had more problems with vowels and /k/ and /g/ and of course /s/ and /sh/ (notice my slashes)

[@VintageDelicato]

I am actually studying to be a Speech Pathologist right now and watching this video just makes me so excited to finally get my career going :D Thanks guys!

[@keishpeish]

That woman was super mean and super wrong! im hearing and I think Sign is one of the most beautiful and expressive languages there is. I wish I kept up with it.

[@76Krw]

I kinda think one of you should have dressed up as the Speech Therapy Lady... I wanna see a CODA Brother wearing red lipstick. That's not weird. Right?

[@sarawuzhere]

Oh! As for me, I told my mom to sign off so I wouldn't have to go to speech class.. Lucky me! My deaf friends did hate me...for few minutes haha

[@TheWendyBurke]

This video cracked me up! I'm a speech pathologist and I promise we all don't wear ruby red lipstick! hahahahhaha

[@deniseleblanc9148]

I went to speech therapy for many years and still my speech terrible.

[@qhloejill]

"Say Rrrrrose" "Rose." "Say Rrrred" "Red" "Say birrrrrrrrd" "Bod." "Birrrrrrrrd." "Buhhhhhhd" "Ok...say rrrrrred."

[@nancyfulton6577]

Omg...these guys are great!

[@jaszybell9]

Speech... Ah lol it was a pain. They'd always get mad cuz i could say sh (My mom's deaf, I'm hard of hearing)

[@maryjanerx]

I was a speech therapist. I did not wear lipstick or have a mole thought.

[@pamela419]

I'm sure it wasn't funny when you both went through the speech therapy, but it's great you can laugh at it now. You had me laughing so much! Thanks for sharing your experiences. You guys are great! :)

[@brianagarry8947]

Ha! Awesome! Brings back memories \"/_

[@dml915]

Hearing and learning asl here. Love the vids! Still waiting on the 6 videos a day you promised! J/k! But seriously I am learning a lot of signs from you guys! Keep the awesome vids coming! Btw one day I would love to sign I knitting lessons on KZbin!

[@mvillanu10]

I love the music you all pick for your videos

[@njterpLORI]

I didn't have ST but the school forbid my mother from helping me with my spelling list.

[@LLivLLaffLLuv]

I have three brothers (whole family is hearing) and they all had to go to speech therapy for years. The youngest one had such a strong speech impediment that only the nuclear family could understand him, and we essentially had to translate for even our grandparents. As the only sibling with normal speech (and the only girl, though I don't think it's related) I constantly had to explain what my brothers were saying to the rest of the family. But they all HATED speech class. (I was kinda jealous. It looked like fun from the outside)

[@collinpribula3270]

u guys r so friggin aawesomely fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyy11!!!!

[@tstarrodriguez4333]

Both of you so funny . Make me laugh so hard. Lol .

[@SandyGooen]

I have one deaf parent, one hearing, and I have a separate communication disorder from that. I was in speech for a WHILE, and it was so frustrating. I'd have to miss other classes. A lot of the people I know who have gone through speech are deaf, and these kids even said to me, both your parents speak, you're hearing, why can't you talk? It was interesting. We had prizes and all sorts of exercises and games that we had to practice for homework. I was the last at my school to "graduate" from speech therapy, and I don't miss it.

[@JordanPdeaf5678]

does your speech eachers got funky breaths when she / he close to ya?

[@VirtualDeafChurch]

My gosh! Definitely most funny episode ever! You all made laugh so hard.

[@spindavidspin]

Hilarious! I love it when you crack yourselves up during the voiceover. Some day you should put together some outtakes.

[@ANFGOLD30]

Great Video, Been learning ASL for 3 months now, love it so much, just went to a deaf winterfest 2 weeks ago and loved it. Your video's are great for learning vocabulary and overall conversation skills thanks for your help! Keep it up!

[@MBona127]

You guys are hilarious!!!!! Love u guys!

[@k8c687]

I haven't laughed so hard !!!

[@abbykimmes9457]

I have so much love for you two. I remember my speech therapy sessions both fondly and with a bit of terror. I have been HoH since birth and was raised in a hearing environment. I totally remember the flip-books, the paper against my lips and trying to learn sh versus th. Great memories overall.

[@Deafgoldenhair]

YOU ARE CHAMP!!!! You really made me laugh so hard!!!! I've heard stories about speech therapist spitting at their face. It's hilarious!! Thank Goodness that it never happened to me.

[@Juulzz]

Called "Can we stop?"

[@judiquis]

I love you guys. You guys are too cute

[@DPeachlady]

Wow it took you both only one year to be able to speak like others. I had ST for 6 years at school and still not able to speak. Oh right ...I forgot that I'm deaf. BIG thump up! Thank you for bringing me flashes of my childhood memories.

[@austinm.9875]

I have deaf parents...or deeeef haha

[@BlindLed]

I am just a recruit into the deaf culture I love the language! Thank you for the fun!

[@6714183]

Speech Therapist here, learning ASL. Love your videos, but between the deaf social I went to this weekend and this video, my self esteem about my job has taken quite a hit! :)

[@rgccrona6633]

@rgccrona6 deaf :(((((

[@missvalval96]

9 long years of speech therapy :P

[@VanceMcCarterGalaxy]

IF CAN DO I LAUGH THIS MANY SO HARD MY HEAD I WAS NEVER STOP LOT OF TIME SILLY!

[@Kpeterson614]

Less than Jake lives on...I just feel more in love with you guys...not in the stalkerish I post your pics everywhere kind of way :o

[@Allibehr1]

Y'all are hilarious!

[@sikeedelic]

I LOVE you guys!!!! So funny!

[@tarafulis]

LOL lol ... great.

[@HanzeUK]

You guys crack me up!

[@lenishenriquez2111]

Been there!! I still practice speech theraphy!!♡♥♡♥

[@Jonrobrt]

Love you guys!! You always make me smile!! Stop working so much an make more videos!! lol!

[@jordanmusleh6305]

Help need help don't know whatf to do..??

[@mckena135]

I totally remember that flip book!

[@theycallmeabs50]

You guys inspire me to be an interpreter.

[@ASLTeachingResources]

It's distracting when you talk over each other. It's hard to keep up with you signing at the same time , just as in hearing culture there should be turn taking

[@knibbles1882]

I love these videos. MORE, please!