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speech and Jamaicans
While, for the sake of simplicity, it is customary to describe Jamaican speech in terms of Standard versus Creole, a clear-cut dichotomy does not adequately describe the actual language use of most Jamaicans.

speech and children
Deaf children from deaf families will often " babble " in sign, just as their hearing counterparts babble in speech, making nonsensical hand gestures.
The native-born children of the colony created the new dialect from factors present in the speech they heard around them, and provided an avenue for the expression of peer solidarity.
Because different writing systems require different parts of the brain to process the visual notation of speech, children with reading problems in one language might not have a reading problem in a language with a different orthography.
The most prevalent disabilities found among school age children are attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), learning disability, dyslexia, and speech disorder.
An especially dramatic example is provided by children who, for medical reasons, are unable to produce speech, and, therefore, can literally never be corrected for a grammatical error, yet, nonetheless, converge on the same grammar as their typically developing peers, according to comprehension-based tests of grammar.
Children with reduced abilities to repeat nonwords ( a marker of speech repetition abilities ) show a slower rate of vocabulary expansion than children for whom this is easy.
" Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, criticised Singer's appointment to the Princeton Faculty in a banquet speech at the organisation's national convention in July 2001, claiming that Singer's support for euthanizing disabled babies could lead to disabled older children and adults being valued less as well.
Examples in which the punned words typically exist in two different parts of speech often rely on unusual sentence construction, as in the anecdote: " When asked to explain his large number of children, the pig answered simply: ' The wild oats of my sow gave us many piglets.
In his inauguration speech, National Youth Council chairman Lenny Lebon said: “ It is indeed a memorable day for all the youth and children of Praslin since from this moment we are no more on an outer island but linked to the global network of cyberspace .”
* Repetition occurs when a unit of speech, such as a sound, syllable, word, or phrase is repeated and are typical in children who are beginning to stutter.
People who stutter commonly report dramatically increased fluency when talking in unison with another speaker, copying another's speech, whispering, singing, and acting or when talking to pets, young children, or themselves.
Most young children are unaware of the interruptions in their speech.
Many toddlers and preschool age children stutter as they are learning to talk, and although many parents worry about it, most of these children will outgrow the stuttering and will have normal speech as they get older.
Since most of these children don't stutter as adults, this normal stage of speech development is usually referred to as pseudostuttering or as a normal dysfluency.
There is evidence that stuttering is more common in children who also have concomitant speech, language, learning or motor difficulties.
" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).
The next month, another US federal court in New York struck down the portion of the CDA intended to protect children from indecent speech as too broad.
On June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the Philadelphia court's decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, stating that the indecency provisions were an unconstitutional abridgement of the First Amendment right to free speech because they did not permit parents to decide for themselves what material was acceptable for their children, extended to non-commercial speech, and did not define " patently offensive ," a term with no prior legal meaning.
A child who is exclusively or predominantly oral ( using speech for communication ) can experience social isolation from his or her hearing peers, particularly if no one takes the time to explicitly teach her social skills that other children acquire independently by virtue of having normal hearing.
Recent research shows variations in efficacy but some studies show that if implanted at a very young age, some profoundly impaired children can acquire effective hearing and speech, particularly if supported by appropriate rehabilitation.
On 27 December Radio Kabul broadcast Karmal's pre-recorded speech, which stated " Today the torture machine of Amin has been smashed, his accomplices – the primitive executioners, usurpers and murderers of tens of thousand of our fellow countrymen – fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters, children and old people ..." On 1 January Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, congratulated Karmal on his " election " as leader, before any Afghan state or party organ had elected him to anything.
Also, speech impairments may be seen in children with CP depending on the severity of brain damage.
This includes children who adapted using speech and lipreading, prosthetic devices such as the cochlear implant, artificial language systems such as Signing Exact English and Cued Speech, and hearing aid technology.

speech and Jamaican
Jamaican Standard and Jamaican Patois exist together in a post-creole speech continuum.
Some types of rapping consist mostly or entirely of speech and chanting, like the Jamaican " toasting ".
The emerging dialect draws influences from Jamaican English and West African speech.
"-( Curran's speech in defense of James Somersett, a Jamaican slave who declared his freedom upon being brought to Britain slavery was banned by his master ; quoted extensively by U. S. abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 37.
He also maintains that some of the Africans taken as slaves to the New World already spoke Guinea Coast Creole English in Africa, and that their creole speech influenced the development of creole languages spoken today on the American side of the Atlantic such as Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Belizean Kriol, Guyanese Creole, Sranan Tongo in Suriname, etc.
Rap developed both inside and outside of hip hop culture, and began in America in earnest with the street parties thrown in the Bronx neighborhood of New York in the 1970s by Kool Herc and others — Jamaican born DJ Clive " Kool Herc " Campbell is credited as being highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music, Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, boastful poetry and speech over music.

speech and parents
When infants are taught to sign, parents are able to converse with them at a developmental stage when they are not yet capable of producing vocal speech, which requires fine control of both breathing and the vocal tract.
In the Principles and Parameters Framework, which has dominated generative syntax since Chomsky's ( 1980 ) Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures, the acquisition of syntax resembles ordering from a menu: The human brain comes equipped with a limited set of choices, from which the child selects the correct options using her parents ' speech, in combination with the context.
Typically, the banquet will include a speech from the parents, the best man, the maid of honor, and the guest speaker.
It is also revealed that because of kids teasing her because of her Boston accent she asked her parents to give her speech therapy classes.
Although both his parents must have contributed to his education, he received most of his primary education from the public school established by the Spanish government in his village, as part of the establishment of the system of free public education in the Philippines, as he himself testified during his speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States during the discussion of Jones Bill, in 1914.
As a result of his parents ' genetic closeness ( they were double first cousins ), Ferdinand suffered from epilepsy, hydrocephalus, neurological problems, and a speech impediment.
Despite his significant disabilities, which caused Kimmerling to experience motor difficulties and speech problems, his parents raised him as a typical child and encouraged him to strive high.
" As a compromise with his parents, for his Bar Mitzvah, which was held at home, he gave a speech in Yiddish about how an electric light works.
Patricia Zebrowski, University of Iowa assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology, notes, " The body of data that resulted from Johnson's work on children who stutter and their parents is still the largest collection of scientific information on the subject of stuttering onset.
Language ( speech ) also develops in the absence of formal instruction or active attempts by parents to correct children's grammar.
On 16 June 2002, Dame Silvia made a speech at the Annual General Meeting of Save The Children's New Zealand branch, in which she criticised section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, which allowed parents to use " reasonable force " to discipline their children.
Though the act is customarily performed by Stan or Kyle, Butters will occasionally reflect on the lessons he has attained during the course of an episode with a brief speech, and will sometimes muster up enough courage to act as the voice of reason when his parents or other adults in town engage in irrational behavior.
Other announced policies and initiatives included: the introduction of federal government parenting classes for those parents deemed to be failing to adequately discipline their children ; a ban on food and drink advertising during children's television viewing hours ; the introduction of a national youth mentoring program ; the government distribution of free story books to the families of newborn children ; a federal ban on plastic shopping bags ; and the introduction of legislation to prohibit vilification on the basis of religious beliefs or sexual orientation, similar to laws adopted in the state of Victoria that some critics said had led to a restriction of free speech.
In a speech given at BYU in 2010, Glenn L. Pace, a member of the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy, said, “ Sisters, I testify that when you stand in front of your heavenly parents in those royal courts on high and look into Her eyes and behold Her countenance, any question you ever had about the role of women in the kingdom will evaporate into the rich celestial air, because at that moment you will see standing directly in front of you, your divine nature and destiny .”
He was named after the Saint Crispin's Day speech from William Shakespeare's play Henry V, which his parents enjoyed.
The next morning, a televised 20-minute farewell speech to the White House staff took place in the East Room, during which the President read from Theodore Roosevelt's biography and praised his own parents.
Only at the end of the novel does he become reunited with his parents and regain his speech.
Joyce takes a leadership role, giving a speech to concerned parents about the unnatural evils in the town, citing the " slayers and witches " among other monsters.
* Motherese and parentese are more precise terms than baby talk, and perhaps more amenable to computer searches, but are not the terms of choice among child development professionals ( and by critics of gender stereotyping with respect to the term motherese ) because all caregivers, not only parents, use distinct speech patterns and vocabulary when talking to young children.
Some experts advise that parents should not talk to infants and young children solely in baby talk, but should integrate some normal adult speech as well.
He attended Mayville Preparatory School, Southsea from 1912 to 1915 and then Portsmouth Grammar School from 1915 to 1924, where he showed no particular academic aptitude but very much enjoyed the Officers ' Training Corps ; when in later life he returned to present prizes, he told the pupils that his parents would have been very surprised to see him in the hall on speech day because he had never come close to winning any school award.
According to their website, Autism Awareness Campaign – United Kingdom was started in 2000 " to campaign on behalf of parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome, for better public services in health, education, specialist speech therapy and respite care ; for independent research into the causes of autism ; for greater public awareness on Autism and Asperger's Syndrome ", as well as other areas where they believe there is a shortfall in public-service provision.

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