The funny side of speech disorders.

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, I just wanted to share this with you. My daughter has quite a severe speech disorder and today at school when I came to pick her up, she showed me a bucket with frog sporn in. All the children were chatting about it and my Lucy said "they will be frogs", which sounded like "wey will pe wuks" I then corrected her, as she's learning the "f" sound at the moment and we've been asked to correct her when she dosn't use that sound.
She then said in a nice load voice " wey will pe fucks", followed by "can I have a fuck in owr garden?" I could've died, I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud.
Then one little girl said "look at all those little dots" and my daughter said "yes, I know, that's fuck porn" (frog sporn obviously)
I wonder what the teacher would have made of that?
She dosn't know any rude words by the way, except wee-wee, pooh-pooh etc. She is a very prim and propper little girl which made it sound even funnier.

[mummyloveslucy]

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[lovelymama]

that's a good'un

I would have fallen about the place laughing. Poor DD and she's doing so well responding to your teaching.

My nephew (American) has a slight speech disorder and has a fog horn voice. When they were at the airport flying out to see us, he saw the aeroplane (Americans call them jets, not planes) they were going to get on and got very excited and started running round the airport shouting "big shet, big shet". My sister in law was mortified as everyone turned to look at the 2 year old who was shouting about large poos.......

[thisisyesterday]

hahahah! classic
bet you were glad there were no teachers around lol

[mummyloveslucy]

I know!! I was ver pleased there wern't any teachers around. Although they are doing a topic on the life cycle of frogs, so they'll hear it sooner or later.

[needanightoutsoon]

very funny i love it ha ...

My DD (9) couldnt pronounce her Fs and indtead the S sound came out ....

it was the world cup and daddy came to pick her up with some of those clip on Flags on the car ...well you can imagine what she shouted in the middle of a (packed) car park in town...

... yes 'look mummy daddy has slags on his car', !

[mummyloveslucy]

That's a good one. You do feel like all eyes are on you when something like this happens.

[Furball]

My ds couldn't say F and used to say C in stead. It's amazing how many times he wanted to use the word Front! not quite what you expect from a then 3 year old.

Luckily it didn't last long.

[follygirl]

My ds used to love saying the word 'clock' but didn't pronounce the 'l'.
Whilst visiting a school which we were considering for him, he insisted on pointing out every single clock in each classroom and saying 'cock' at the top of his voice. It certainly got a few giggles!

[MummyDoIt]

DS1 had a speech problems and had trouble with the 'c/k' sound. He would sometimes substitute 'p'. Slightly unfortunate when his keyworker at nursery was called Chris as that ended up as Piss.

[waitingforbedtime]

Ds doesnt have a speech disordeer i dont think but does mispronounce words (he is 3y3m) and says 'little fucker' for little plugger from Roary teh Racing car and 'Fat cunt roller' for Fat controller. Is delightful!

[chegirlWILLbeserene]

My son has auditory processing disorder so he cant 'hear' words properly. He has to fill in the gaps himself.

He does this a lot with names. When he meets someone new I quite look forward to what version he will come up with.

Carrot - caroline
Dingdong - dyonne
Face - faith

etc.

He spent the day at a siblings club a few weeks ago. I asked the worker if he had been ok and understood everything etc. She said yep he has been fine. He then proceeded to drag me over to get his coat from the 'cabbage'. His version of cabin .

As for swearing I can usually tell who he has picked up a phrase or word from because he tends to say it exactly like that person. (he uses a lot of phrases from tv etc) so I cant duck the blame if he says a rude word in just the way I do

[mummyloveslucy]

They are so funny, the problem is trying not to laugh in front of them.

My daughter went to the zoo once and there was a model of a crocodile with an alarm clock in it'sw mouth, if you press it, the crocodile makes a noise.
My daughter shouted out "yook mummy, he got a cock in he mouth".
It certainly got peoples attention.

[BowerEstelle]

A lot of students and professor's think that if you have speech disorders it is really bad and it should be fixed somehow. However there are different sides of it , there is also positive part about funny speech , ad it let the listeners relax and listen even more in such atmosphere. Moreover memory.ucsf.edu/brain/language/disorders gives other good reasons for it.