For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
I’m not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?
Sure :D you probably subconsciously used techniques we’d use
Could be, but it was a lot of conscious work too haha
I can imagine. You essentially need to reprogram your brain and the motorical execution of how you produce the s-sounds which takes a lot of time and effort. In some cases, there are even external factors that could even prevent you from learning the “correct” pronunciation, like the way your teeth have grown, the way your upper and lower jaw bones are set in relation to one another, and more. You’d need to go to an orthodontist first to achieve results in the speech therapy.
Do you remember what kind of lisp it was and why you had it? Did your tongue protrude between your front teeth when producing s-sounds, for example, or was the tip of your tongue right at your upper front teeth?
My tongue protruded between upper and lower creating the “classic” lisp, not the “cool” Sean Connery sh lisp haha. Didn’t even know I had it until some new kid in school made fun of me in grade 6.
I remember I came home and asked my mum if I talked funny and she reluctantly told me I had a lisp. I asked her to hold her mouth open with her fingers to see her teeth when she made an ‘s’, then show me how I did it. Once I saw the difference I understood to keep my tongue behind my teeth and just made a conscious effort to correct it every time I spoke for months.
I have an overbite so it was challenging to land the bottom of my top teeth on the top of my bottom teeth, but after a few months it became habit. I’m a freelance voice actor now haha.