Speech therapy and interactions with speech language pathologists (SLPs) during early adolescence are common experiences for many deaf individuals. The decision to attend speech therapy is typically made by their hearing parents in conjunction with medical and educational professionals who hold the view that deaf children need to fit into the hearing world (Harmon, 2013). With the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) showing that most licensed SLPs work in school settings (ASHA, 2018) coupled with the fact that most deaf children receive some speech therapy in their early schooling years, we wanted to know how culturally Deaf individuals felt about their experiences with speech therapy. Therefore, the research questions that guided this study were 1. What attitudes do culturally Deaf adults have toward their experience in speech therapy, and why do they have these attitudes? 2. What suggestions do culturally Deaf people have to help speech language pathologists be culturally competent with culturally Deaf clients? We used a qualitative design with a thematic content analysis to provide a description of the textual data from participants' stories (Anderson, 2007). Findings from this initial study provided some insight into how culturally Deaf individuals feel about having had speech therapy in school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]