Speech therapy at home!

[elizbake]

DS 3 next month has mild speech delay, mainly issues with pronunciation. Anyway,he has decided that practising at home is for 'losers'! Any tips/experience please. He is so stubborn and generally driving me crazy!

Main thing is to not make it homework, just build it into every day chat. Repeat back to him without necessarily making him say it back. It helps him realise how it should sound. Lots of praise and encouragement and try not to make it a battle of wills. It will come in time x

Thanks x

It depends. You could set a specific time of day (right after lunch for example) and play a game, such as this www.elc.co.uk/Monkey-Business-Game/124816,default,pd.html. You put down some card with an image of something he needs to pronounce (would you mind telling me which sounds you need to work on?), a simple CVS word (consonate, vowel, consonate) and he needs to say it three times then he can have a go. Then you have a go! so it's a game with practice of specific sounds. We do this often at home, and DS's favourite game at three was the monkey game. Or any other game that you need to take turn.

I meant CVC words!

Oops, looks like I have posted twice. Does anyone know how I can merge them!

He does have SALT input. He has missed out all his bilabial sounds ( m,b,p ) because of a suspected problem with his muscles, he finds it difficult to chew meat etc. His talking is coming along (3,4 sometimes 5 words together) but very slowly.. Sigh! Thanks for the tip about he monkey game, will give it a go. He has an older brother, who wants to out perform him when we try and do it as a family ,and a 7 mo sister who is crawling around and grabbing everything in sight. It just seems so hard to find the time when he isn't tired or not in the mood, or simply overwhelmed with a very noisy household!

how long did it 'take' your DS Blueberry, I am panicking at the thought of pre school! He really can't hold a conversation.

DS has a speech disorder so still doing therapy with a speech therapist (he is 5, in year 1) and he has support half an hour, four days a week at school with an excellent TA who does group discussions and one-to-one with him.

It's a long journey for us! Hope it will be quicker for your son...

DS had three words when he started pre school, he was practically non verbal. He now speaks really well but pronounciation is poor, it is difficult for him to speak. He has Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia.

Yes, I have heard of that Blueberry. I read a bit about it when doing my endless googling ! It sounds like he is doing really well, and getting good support in school.

I think acquiring these sounds for my DS will be a long road, he can barely put his lips together, and misses all his consonants off the end of words, but his sentence structure is getting there...

Just need to put the work in!