Can anyone advise please?

[PinkChick]

my dd almoat 4 seems to still have problems with her 's' sounds, she can say sausages for example and 's' 'starting' words most of time, but often comes out as 'th'
her speeech is very good otherwise, apart from a spell of stammering which i was told was because she was very advanced in her level of vocabulary.

and also

one of my mindees cant sat 'th' as in 'this', its always replaced by a 'y', like 'yis'

cpn once told me 's' sound is last one they master, but is this unusual or quite normal and other than help her pronounce words(which i think puts more pressure on her), what could i do to help both?

TIA

My friends little girl pronounced S's as th's too...She was definately still doing it when she started school. Anyway ...can't remember when it went ...but it did.
My girl is just 4. She pronounces L's as Y's...If she talks slowly she can do it...but mostly doesn't. I think it will sort it self out in time.
Is your little girl at nursery or playgroup? They have a speech therapist who comes into our playgroup and works with a few of the children every month or so. Perhaps you could as them what they think?...or other than that ask your gp.

Sorry...meant hv..not gp

my dd is at school nursery and teachers say she has no probs and wondered why i took her to S.T reg stammer as they thought she was fine.

mindee is 3 1/2 and cant get palce in nursery until sept, so i am doing what i can to help her now.

Hi Pinkchick. My nephew could not master a few sounds, the S being the most obvious. If it was on its own, he'd replace it with a T (sun=tun); if with another consonant, he'd just drop the S (splat= plat). I think it's fairly common to lisp etc this young when using S. I worked closely at time with a speech therapist, who said that there was nothing to worry about (he was age 3-4 then- intervention is used this early only in much more extreme circumstances), but SIL wanted him to have some help, I suppose also in advance of him going to school, for social reasons. The S sound wasn't the first sound he worked on, as it is the most difficult. Personally, I would let time take its course and let the issue remedy itself. But my LO doesn't even talk yet! Nephew found it helpful (from work with private speech therapist)to use actions to remember and practise sounds. S was connected to "snake" and the long body of a snake and the sssss sound that it makes. So enjoyed practising S by making a long SSSSSS sound whilst trailing his hand down the opposite arm until he reached the wrist and then finished the word "nake". This would probably not be good if DD doesn't like snakes! But I guess, the lesson that I took from it was that sounds became a game, not a tool for correction.
Hope this helps at all.

thankyou..we do do that with snake as we were running up and down garden being diff animal snaking uop the garden and back