Blog #21

The role language will play in my life will be for my work which is art therapy. The podcast talks about using symbols and sign language but with art therapy, you can use language through art to express how you feel or what you want. My relationship with language wasn’t always the best I struggled with it and I even had an IEP which was to show that I needed extra help with my reading, writing, and spelling. I use to resent having it I always thought I was stupid because of it and I soon came to realize that I did need it and it didn’t mean that it was a bad thing it was a good thing that was going to help me. In my Junior year of Highschool, I got my chance to test out of it and I did and it was the best day of my life cause I had finally proven that I didn’t need my IEP anymore. Using language in the past for me was to help me understand how to say certain words or how to make the sounds of certain letters. Language is important now because language is used in many different ways and we should learn the different ways so that you know what to say and do. Language for me in the future will be to help kids or adults with mental damage to help them reform words or relearn what they already know but have a hard time remembering.