Speech strangery with DS1

[hunkermunker]

Does anyone else's child repeat the final sound of a word? DS1 did it a while ago, when he was first speaking single words (cat t-t-t - so three distinct "t" sounds after the word).

He's just started doing it again, but this time with sentence speaking, so: "I got the paper with grandad-d" or "six o'clock-ck-ck"

It's like he stammers on the end of the word. I'm not worried about it - just wondering if anyone else's child does it because I don't know any who do.

Oh, and nobody says things like "ca-TUH" to him like you might to a teenager who was dropping his final sounds.

Qite unusual,but not unduly so.
Believe me,I've seem some pretty curious stuff in 10 years as a salt!

Well,I'm not a stammering bod,but generally a stammer is word initial.
If you are worried,no problem with referring him for an assessment (which will probably take a year anyway...)
More or less guarantee it will have gone by timer it comes around.

Do you keep a diary?
Make a note in it,or on your calendar four months from now,reminding yourself to review situation.

Just act completely calm and normal with him-don't draw attention to it.

I used to keep a more detailed diary, less time now! I have one, so I will note it in it that he's started doing it again. I'm trying to remember exactly when he did it before - was probably about the time DS2 was born and he did it for a few weeks.

I don't draw attention to it and I will alert other people not to either. I'll mention it to my HV (who is actually really very nice - well, two of the three at my practice are - one is rather like a damp sock...).

HV will know bugger all about speech and language (even if she is nice-as are mine!) but she can refer.
Many salt departments are self referring anyway,which saves time and energy.
Look 'em uo and give them a ring.

Deffo worth keeping rough record of stuff like this-so easy to forget.

Let me know how you get on eh?

Yes, I thought she might refer. I'm not worried enough to take him for an assessment - I will do as you say though and keep an eye on it. He's doing it every sentence that ends in a hard consonant now (I'm not sure of the correct term!).

You probably mean a stop?
Like t d g p
Yes??

Bet he doesn't do it with a fricative
Like ch f j

Bet he does, MD. He said "watch-ch-ch" earlier.

Ah...
sh f ??
(Cos ch and j before are actually affricates.)

He tends to do it when he's talking "to" me or someone else - not when he's just chattering. I wonder if it's a stress thing? I'm going back to work next month, DS2 has just started crawling (and grabbing toys and food off DS1...!)

I just asked him what a dog says and he said "woo-woof!" which is what he usually says - no repeat of the f.

Trying to think of a way to ask him something that he'll reply to that ends in "sh" now!

wash
dish
push
splash

I'd thought of wash and splash, but I can't think of a way to get him to say them because he doesn't talk unless he wants to

I just asked him about splashing in the bath and he said "that's fun, swimming in the pond" without repeating the final d. I think he knows I'm speaking to you

Er. To clarify. I don't bath DS1 or DS2 in a pond...

Imagine the tortuous sessions we have in clinic then,trying to get them to oh so casually say something so we can check a phoneme in word initial,medial and final positions!

People devote entire careers to this!

It sounds fascinating (truly!) - I love speech and language development. DS2's just started properly babbling and I love it (DS1 babbled a good three months earlier, so I'd been mildly fretting about that too...then I realised DS1 hadn't crawled as early as DS2 so I stopped fretting at all ).

He's just said muffins to me with "ns" repeated. He's only repeating the final sound once now, the first time he did this it was several times.

Ds does this and has done since he started talking. He is dropping it a little now. However he does have other pronunciation problems.

MOONDOG ARE you a speech therapist -my dd has (oddly age11) said this is what she wants to do -i would love to pick your brains!

hunkermunker-My ds who is 5 says the last word of a sentence twice ie "Are we going to the shop shop"
I have noticed my dd 3 does the same.Not sure if she is copying big brother or not.

He also has problems with words starting in tr
so tree would be wee
train would be rain

NOA,ask away.
I love being a salt.
Great fun,never a dull moment.
Wouldn't do owt else.

quite un - prompted my daughter said she was interested in being one...

was it hard to get on the course?
where does it?
was the course arduous ( i have heard it is)
Can you choose to specialise?
hows the pay ( sorry!!!)

Um,did it as post grad so two year fast track course in City Uni in London.
Most people do 4 year undergrad one.
Quite a bit of competition to get in,yes.You need to be pretty smart (natch!! )

Funny mix of Arts and Science so if you were good at languages and Biology and/or Psychology then this is ideal.

Most people specialize after few years generic work.Impossible to cover all basis.Spcialist areas would be stammering,haering impairment,augmentative/alternative communication,stroke,dementia,clef palate,voice disorders and so on.

I work with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and love it.

You'll always have a job-not nearly enough SALTS.Also dead easy to find work abroad.Lots of people do stints in SA,Oz,HK,NZ.
Loads of locum jobs too

I will go to NZ with kids and dh in a few years.

Money is pretty good. Start on about 20K,can go up to about 70K.

Where does it? Hmmmm...Manchester,Sheffield,Cardiff,City UCL (?) Edinburh(?)

What a sussed 11 year old!