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I think you might be the only group of people who will get this. At DS's IEP for speech last week, the speech teacher flat out told me that he might never learn to make an "R" sound. She said it just seems to her like they might have to find a work around because its not even emergent in any context (he is 7.5). Last night he was talking about trick or treating and did not say twick-oh-tweat! He was darn close to saying it right! This is last speech "thing" after 5 years or speech. If he gets it he will sound almost normal! I am super proud of him!
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Leeah
lol Dannie, I agree with you. I think I'd take almost anything over a lateralized /s/!
Yes, /r/ can be a lot of fun to work with but so challenging for the student who has difficulty with it!
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Wonderful TREAT! :)I used to have a lot of trouble with /s/, but thanks to speech therapy over a number of years I am now an adult with no hint of a lisp except when I am extremely tired or super furious!I find that even professionals can underestimate a child. For example, at my own job (I am a special education teacher), several of us did not "push" a particular student to eat "properly" (without getting food everywhere) until one teacher would straight-up take this student's food away, pause for a moment, and say "You are a teenager now, let's try that again. Please don't play with your food." And do you know what? This student can now eat her meals without an apron and a huge stack of napkins and wet wipes!Kids often amaze the adults in their lives, even professionals. Keep praising your little one for every correct /r/; my speech therapist used to give me the coolest stickers for my hard work (shiny, fuzzy or scratch-and-sniff stickers were my favorites). It was very motivating! :clap:
I keep making him repeat it to me and then get all excited again. Its a big deal to him to "not sound like a baby." Of course, he tells me that the speech teacher helped but what really helped was she left her book open so he was able to read about the correct positioning of his tongue and where he was holding it that was making the wrong sound. He says if someone would have just told him where to hold his tongue he could have done this a long time ago!
Nevada Jen
I keep making him repeat it to me and then get all excited again. Its a big deal to him to "not sound like a baby." Of course, he tells me that the speech teacher helped but what really helped was she left her book open so he was able to read about the correct positioning of his tongue and where he was holding it that was making the wrong sound. He says if someone would have just told him where to hold his tongue he could have done this a long time ago!