Had speech therapy at deaf school until i was 16 then refused to go against my parents wishes by not turning up for speech therapy then the therapist asked me why, i explained, she understood my feelings and cut the hours down to one hour a week, it helped as it was all about maintaining my speech but it didn't really improve until i went to hearing college then it improved such a deal that my parents was feeling very small! 33 now still have no issues with people misunderstanding me, just have SH/S problem but thats no big deal. I work with Autsitic teenagers they understand me fine, they have speech issues themselves which i help with. I had HA all my life until CI 3 years ago.
