Lisping

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DD is almost 21 months her speech is pretty good she's got quite a range of words and puts together 3 or 4 words eg 'daddy sit here please' I know she's very young and has a long way to go but we noticed that over the last month she's gone from saying a real 'ssss' sound to lisping all her s's even
when making a snake sound.

We do only sometimes tell her how to make an 's' sound but she just giggles and makes a bit fat lispy 'sss'

Is she likely to be just experimenting?

I think a lisp is pretty common in young children. My dd still has a lisp and she's coming up to 4 yrs old. We had some speech therapy a while back and they weren't concerned at this stage - I guess if it is still an issue at school age they might help then.

My DS has had the tongue tie - the little piece of skin under his tongue - snipped. GP referred us. Took 5 secs tops: tiniest bit of blood, bit of screaming but over in no time at all.