Changes in my 8 year olds speech?

[Snufflebabe05]

My daughter is 8 and a half, and over the last few weeks I feel that her speech has changed slightly.

Nothing that anyone else would notice, but I think she is not pronouncing her ‘R’ as clearly, or her ‘L’. For example, “Tewwible” and “pwobably”. She has always said a soft ‘r’, slightly rolling it, but I feel it is more prominent in recent weeks. She is otherwise healthy and happy, loves to read and chat. I’ve asked her to repeat the word, and sometimes she says the word much more clearly, and sometimes she sticks with the soft/rolling version of the word, if that makes sense.

I’m thinking of having a chat with the doctor, or a SALT, but would be interested if anyone’s been through something similar. I wondered whether her teeth are moving causing the changes?

My daughter did that and I wondered until I her friend came to play and she was the same only worse.
As she got older I could tell which of her friends she was talking to on the phone because of the slightly different way she spoke with each one.

She became very good at languages because she picked up accents so easily. She spent a year in Australia when she was 21 and came back with such a strong Aussie accent, which disappeared within a week.
I wonder if something like this may be going on with your daughter.