Anyone else have issues with reading out loud?

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Was just wondering if anyone else here has this issue. I have no problem with reading, but when i have to read out loud my brain seems to bog down. It's as if I have to force the words through the filter between brain and mouth and i lose my place very easily.

When I was in elementary school, we had to read out loud a lot. Back then, because we read out loud often, I did not have a problem with reading out loud. Now that I'm in college where I don't have to read out loud for class at all, I do find that I am slower about it than I was when I was a child. Though, I'm fairly certain if I practiced, I would not be slow about it anymore. It's not so much that my brain gets "bogged" down, but my mouth can't keep up with my brain. I read very fast in my head and apparently my mouth has a hard time keeping up!

I did as a kid and kids would say I was skipping words. I think it had to do with my brain going too fast and my mouth was unable to keep up. But to me I was reading perfectly fine and other kids would read words I missed or the teacher. But I do better as an adult and I know how to slow my mind down when I read.

Yep, I'm terrible at reading aloud. Better than I used to be but still terrible.

I do now, when I was younger I loved reading out loud in class. Now I don't like reading out to anybody school or not. I get self conscious and stumble over my words, probably because I'm reading too fast. Also, I don't comprehend what I'm reading unles I'm alone and I'm reading silently at my own pace.

No. In fact, I started a topic about how I often need to do it to concentrate:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3971801.html

Exactly!

When I was in school they would try to make me read out loud and I would refuse. Sometimes they even said that the whole class would have to sit there until I read but I always held out longer than them.

As far as I remember I wasn't good at reading out loud in elementary school. Soon I began to stutter, so imagine how it went for someone who had this issue... plain disastrous. I've practiced though, so I'm not as bad as I've been, but sometimes I'd jumble even now. I have to intonate carefully to get most of the meaning out. I'm not good at reading in my head either, I'm actually quite slow.

I am terrible at reading out loud.

I do not enunciate words very clearly and speak with a bit of a nasal monotone so that really doesn't help the experience for the listener. Being self conscious of this makes me stumble on the words too.

The two things that usually happen is that it is almost as if I am compelled to scan a page faster than I can read it. At any rate, I often find myself getting to the end of a sentence and getting confused as to what order I need to say the words, even though the writer has already done the job of putting the words in the proper order.

The other is that if I have to read (or speak) for any length of time, my throat dries out and starts to hurt. If I do it too long, I seem to open myself up to infections and usually end up getting a cold as a result.

Luckily I'm at an age where people usually don't ask me to read out loud.

If I try to read out loud, I start stuttering more than normal. It's very frustrating.

I've always had a problem at school. By the time I was at university I just flat out said no if I was required to read out loud. I recall one time at school where I felt completely humiliated in front of the whole class. The teacher went around the class and made everyone read out. When it came to my turn my heart rate went up and I stuttered and started to breathe heavy and couldn't get my words out. My voice was very wobbly and nervous. Once I finished someone asked me whether I was alright and everyone laughed at me. It was horrible. Once it was my turn again I just refused to do it, and luckily I had a teacher who was understanding enough to excuse me from it.

No fine. I really like Reading out loud to kids and am perfecting a number of voices / accents. Some words escape me or I miss, but I can patch up the sentence.

Jason

I seem proficient enough with reading text that if we are going in circles reading paragraphs they stop at me... and I end up reading pages.

Me too. Like I said in the topic I posted:



And I have a stuttering problem in general, which naturally manifests when I read out loud. But I still find myself reading out loud, as bad as I am at it, since it makes concentrating easier.

I have far fewer than when I was young. When I was in first grade, my teacher thought I couldn't read because I couldn't read out loud.

My basic problem is a problem with forming sounds properly. I needed speech therapy for this up through 10th grade. When I read I'm more aware of this, but I'm not sure if I actually have more issues than when I'm speaking normally.