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Speech therapy???
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When should this become a concern? Ds will be 7 in June and still pronounces s as th and still doesn’t sound the th correctly. And has anyone done this at home? I really prefer not to have to go somewhere and pay loads of money if it can be done here.
thanks
paula
I am not an expert as to when a mispronunciation should be a concern, but when my son was younger, he had trouble with “s” and “sh” and we used this product with great sucess.
She had a few different PDF’s to choose from.
Blessings,
Heather
I was going to suggest the Super Star Speech materials too. Used with my 2nd child. He had surgery on his throat at 4 (was completely unintelligible before that) and then we worked with her materials and he made good progress after healing.
My son struggles some with speech. Before we started some light therapy the main thing I noticed were his th’s sounding incorrect. I noticed where my tongue was to make the correct sound and had him practice. I also wrote out a bunch of sentences with ‘th’ words and had him read them to me daily. Only took 5-10 min. He mastered that but has fluency issues. When I took him in for that the therapist said his th’s were great but he had a few other sounds that needed work that I hadn’t noticed. HTH some:) Gina
Thinking back 6 years, when my son had his speech evaluated (at age 3) there was a chart for the age-range when it was normal to be able to make the various sounds. A few it was normal to be fairly late (they had a LARGE age range). I do think that age 7 or 8 was about the time that a child should be able to properly make all the sounds. Maybe you could figure out a phrase to google and find a chart like that? Something like -> age range for speech sounds?
This is a great web site that I have used many times with regards to speech therapy:
http://mommyspeechtherapy.com/
If the s/th sound is your only concern, that could easily be taught at home. My younger son had some serious articulation issues, so I had him in speech therapy with a professional for three years. If you look on that web site for how to teach the “th” sound, I’m sure you will find many suggestions.
Oh, hey, I found the actual post for the “th” sound:
http://mommyspeechtherapy.com/?p=62
Practice, practice, practice…with a mirror if your child is visual and needs to see how the letter formation is made. Also, make some games that would help you practice. One of my son’s favorite games was to play “Go Fish” with his speech words. I would print out duplicate copies of the words we were practicing from the “Mommy Speech Therapy” website, glue the individual words onto index cards, and use those to play “Go Fish”. We must have played that game hundreds of times!
Good luck!
If you decide professional help is a route to go, you will probably need a doctor’s referral. Just thought I’d mention that since it adds to the time of getting in. Often there are waiting lists as well for the therapist.
I took my dd in and had her evaluated. She was receiving therapy weekly for her “f” sound – all the others I was concerned about were “normal” and would correct themselves.
Well, last week we hit a plateau and the therapist told us to wait a few months and we’d try it again. I wanted to practice at home so we didn’t have to return to weekly visits. =) I’m very excited to see that Mommy Speech Therapy site. Thanks for sharing that.
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