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help needed to relocate the letter "T"

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chicagomum · 29/08/2005 17:17

my dd (3.5) has in the last few days lost the letter "t" from her vocabularly up until now her speech has been excellent, but know its gone completely i don't want to make an issue of it as if i do she'll just make a point of doing it. anyone else had this situation and does it resolve itself or do you need to "persuade" it back again?

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eefs · 29/08/2005 17:22

This is the advise given to me by DS2's S&L therapist:

Don't correct her but repeat the "T" word she used in a question/sentence back to her while over-prouncing the missing letter.
i.e. she says Bottle and you reply "would you like a boTTle?"

think it's probably just a phase - my mum would kill me for dropping my T's "Wha?" being her most hated word ever.

bigdonna · 30/08/2005 11:59

we live near london and i have to correct my kids that water has a t in it.

ThePrisoner · 30/08/2005 23:17

I know a slightly older child who used to forget a lot of letters, including "t", because he wanted to sound "ard". I just used to ask him to repeat what he'd said (sometimes several times) because I didn't understand him!

Vaunda · 30/08/2005 23:26

LOL I live in London and all through school got called posh and a snob why? well my dad taught us to speak properly as he classed it. , i never drop h's or t's or any letter for that matter. The children i went to school with picked on me something rotten. But i still teach my son the same way

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