The Motor Power of Speech: A Journey into Language Learning
Imagine someone telling you for the first time: “Speech is 100% motor.” This simple statement flipped everything I thought I knew about language upside down. For years, I’d approached language as purely mental – a game of vocabulary, grammar rules, and memorization. But that one statement completely shifted my perspective on how we learn and use languages. I first encountered this concept during an intensive training program, where I was learning to become a Spelling-to-Communicate practitioner under the expert guidance…