to expect my mum to actually believe her GC has speech difficulties?

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my DD (7) has "word recall" difficulties - she knows the word for things but just can't remember them. It's just certain words but can be anything from fire engine to microwave. She has been seeing a speech therapist who has been fantastic and its been such a relief for me - I am feeling less frustrated with my DD ( ). My mum just won't accept there is a problem though and told me the other day that she could understand my DD perfectly. The insinuation being that everyone was making a mountain out of a mole hill. I tell her that she can't name a vase or whatever and she just says hmmm. Now that the school have highlighted this may be affecting her maths work I have told my mum this and she just said "good that everyone is trying to help". AIBU to be annoyed at my mum? Its not that my DD has a great learning difficulty but I would like her to be a bit more helpful and interested - we went sent home some tips on how to help her with word recall and my mum just said "oh I couldn't do that with her" - why not?!!

Don't know how old she is, but I think women of a certain age like to shut their eyes and ears to all manner of unpleasant things, because they think it didn't go on in their day. Or they don't like to think that someone in the family isn't "quite right".
My MIL actually said in the summer that she didn't understand why people got depressed "I never did". Well half of her children suffer from it !
Don't worry about it- just give your dc the support from you.

That is so sad and frustrating.My mother is the same.Ds is dyspraxic and we had a late diagnosis and all sorts of problems and my mum totally won't entertain the idea Her boss at work is dyslexic which is not the same thing and she says things like 'boss name'has that and he's head of psychology!unbelievably she is a social worker but is the most non pc person on the planet.I hope you get the help and support you need elsewhere.i don't even discuss it with her now as it makes me boil!

deaddei i think you are right it probably is the attitude that "it didn't go on in their day" perhaps she thinks everyone has to be labelled or something. I just don't see how she can't use the prompts that the speech therapist recommended - the word has so many claps, starts with the letter ... and so on. Is it because she is embarrassed or because she is thinking she would be treating my DD like she was stupid? Strange thing is ... I went to a speech therapist myself !!! That was medical reasons though so I guess "that is different".