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Chris Kamara admitted to feeling like “a fraud” when appearing on television with his speech apraxia condition.
Appearing watery-eyed and choked-up, he said: “Every day I wake up, the first thing I think is ‘am I gonna be able to talk today?’. The condition makes planned motions, such as opening the mouth when prompted, difficult to perform. What is speech apraxia? The Speech and Language Therapy Department of the NHS describes apraxia as the “difficulty in carrying out planned movements”. While automatic movements like a yawn are able to be carried out, deliberate actions become challenging.
Conversational speech inevitably becomes very difficult, although ‘automatic’ speech activities such as counting, swearing and greetings come much easier. The disorder’s severity can vary, making symptoms differ from one sufferer to another. He continued: “Words come out different than what you’re trying to say and that’s even weirder, so that’s been hard to accept. I was gonna quit everything, literally every single TV at the end of last season.”