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What word is my speech delayed daughter saying?

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Thedarksideofthemoon30 · 13/04/2021 19:15

My dd4 has a speech delay, she’s trying her hardest to tell me about her friend at school but she keeps saying “Sharon” and when I repeat the name she is getting angry because it’s not right! I can’t think what it could be!

Help me lol it’s driving both of us insane!

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Dontstepinthecowpat · 13/04/2021 23:04

I hear ‘Summer’

My DD is almost 9 and has severe speech delay (she had no words at 4). She was talking about her friend ‘goosie’ all the time and I assumed it was down to speech delay but turned out her new BFF was called Guste, very cute!

Hope you work it out and try not too worry about her speech, we have been doing speech therapy since 18 months and private since she was 5, she’s come along way and your DD will too!

Aberteifi · 13/04/2021 23:06

I have looked up some girls names the last one sounds a bit like what she is saying
Seren
S^han
Si^an
Siani
Sioned
Siriol
Siwan

Mygardenisnotperfect · 13/04/2021 23:07

Shawn/Sean?
Joanne?
Sian?
Sarah-Anne?
I’d definitely ask the teacher for a class list and also who she’s been hanging out with 😂

DIshedUp · 13/04/2021 23:12

It sounds like she's saying so - Anne or su anne

Solanne? Surranne? Or farrane? Suzanne?

It definitely sounds like Anne at the end

Its perfectly possible what she thinks this child is called is something completely random and not their name, and they are actually called Emily or something

Therewereroses · 13/04/2021 23:12

I would hear Sharon as my dd didn't pronounce her R's until about 4. It's definitely an Sh sound the start, so either take it literally as Shawan, or else presume she's pronouncing the R as a W. Or just ask her teacher and report back as I'm dying to know!

She sounds so lovely and bless her for trying to be understood! Hope she has a fabulous birthday party.

PickAChew · 13/04/2021 23:15

Sarah.

Ds2 adds a n sound to the ends of lots of words, so says 15 when he means 50, for example.

DIshedUp · 13/04/2021 23:19

Or something van/von like Devon? Javanne?

Cherrypies · 13/04/2021 23:20

Aw, bless her
I think its maybe Joanne

Jenasaurus · 13/04/2021 23:22

Could it be seven

MinnieJackson · 13/04/2021 23:25

Summer?

Umbongoumbongo999 · 13/04/2021 23:26

Sounds like shannon to me.

Nanny2many · 13/04/2021 23:41

We had a new girl move into our street when I was younger, and I went home and told my mum that her name was Vanilla. My mum checked and she was called Fenella

mamamilkmachine · 13/04/2021 23:42

Place marking as desperate to know when you find out! Asked my 4YO earlier on and she said Michelle which was weird as it sounds nothing like it!

Zandathepanda · 13/04/2021 23:45

My Dd used to mix up syllables like a previous poster’s so I would investigate names beginning with R too like the popular Irish name Roisin.

MidgeRidge · 13/04/2021 23:48

Saran? I went to school with a girl called Saran - sounds just like it. Worth a try.

RandomMess · 13/04/2021 23:51

Has she had her hearing checked? My DD kept passing the NHS ones but when she had a private one it was very apparent that she had a distorted hearing curve (too sensitive to low frequency sounds and hearing impaired in high frequency sounds).

So my DD was speaking exactly what she heard!! Once we sorted her hearing out her speech came on in leaps and bounds.

I remember a similar very upsetting conversation for DD when she was using her word flannel but was actually saying Rapunzel!!

She also used the same word for Daddy, Noddy & Jenny.

Dodie66 · 13/04/2021 23:56

Can’t you si at the school what the child’s name is?

Therewereroses · 14/04/2021 00:04

@mamamilkmachine

Place marking as desperate to know when you find out! Asked my 4YO earlier on and she said Michelle which was weird as it sounds nothing like it!
Grin That made me LOL. The expertise of 4 year olds!
Therewereroses · 14/04/2021 00:08

DD aged two used to talk about d'amewica, usually when just out of the bath. I presumed she was talking about her childminder as they were American so would talk to her all about America (not that I know much about it). No. As time went on it became apparent that she was talking about 'the mirror'. Chinese whispers sometimes with children!

KillerFlamingo · 14/04/2021 00:09

We have a little girl called Shiman at school, sounds a bit like that maybe?
(Not sure if I've spelt it right though.)

Therewereroses · 14/04/2021 00:15

Just a nice story for anyone with a child with speech delays, my cousin didn't speak until he was about 6. Nothing at all really I think (though I was the same age so wouldn't have noticed really as a child as you don't tend to. I can only remember one occasion where we went into the shop to buy sweets and he could only point and I of course took it on myself to be interpreter for him). He attended speech and language therapy at that age but spoke with a stammer until about 13. He is now a millionaire and despite several doctors and engineers and scientists in the family, he is actually the most successful of all of us. Worked in banking for years and is now an entrepreneur. Once he got going there was no stopping him.

Theunamedcat · 14/04/2021 00:21

Ds says sour he is also speech delayed 🤣

Justyouwaitandseeagain · 14/04/2021 00:22

Seren
Sarah Ann
Sherren / Sherran
Shannon
Sharwan
Shavan
Simran
Shauna
Cheyenne (Shai-Anne or Shy-ann)
Shivum
Shilah / Shylan

WagnersFourthSymphony · 14/04/2021 00:22

It definitely ends in 'n' - as a PP said, that's never a mistake.

If I didn't know, I'd think it was Sharon.

And as she's only 4, I wouldn't assume it was a fellow pupil: could it be a teacher or a TA?

ChickenShedLife · 14/04/2021 00:26

My son used to come home from playgroup talking about “Richard” all the time. When I asked the staff who Richard was, so that I could invite him for a play date they all looked blank, as there’s no Richard. So I asked my DS to show me who Richard was, and he leads me to a little girl, who it turns out is actually called.... Bridget!