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I've just realized how bad dd's LITHP is.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 10:44

At the nativity play, dd (6) really, really did lisp a lot.

What's the score with the lithping then? Do we leave and ignore (my usual parenting strategy) or should I do something about this?

Her teacher did mention before that she doesn't always make or hear the right sounds - like fairly standard 'th' and 'f' for instance, and sometimes had trouble with rhyming words, but I sort of ignored that too. [head in the sand]

Thoughts appreciated.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 10:50

I have looked in the archive, but it seems mostly to be about younger children.

I just wonder whether this sort of lisping and slightly slurry speech crisps up of its own accord or not?

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foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 10:52

hello you

we have been told with ds that they will wait till his big teeth comes in.

He doesn't do 'th' and still struggles with some double consonants (so snakes sound like nakes) and he does the Jonathan Ross rs.

foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 10:53

big teeth come in .

I have noticed, as his little teeth are starting to fall out, that some of his words are changing.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 10:54

Hello you.

You care. That's nice.

Perhaps I should go and talk to someone, what with the teachers thing about hearing too?

God, I'm so crap. I'd rather not given half a chance really.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 10:56

DS2 went for speech therapy once when he was little, and the room was so quiet and she spoke so clearly and slowly, so he did too.

Sometimes I wonder whether she just runsallherwordstogether in quite an indistinct way because everyone here just talks SO MUCH and SO FAST.

Hmmmm.

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 13/12/2007 10:57

We had great success with tongue twisters helping DS2 (6) with S/SH and CH sounds.

foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 10:58

yes, well we didn't even ask about it . We were approached because they thought we might be worried (errrr....oh dear).

So we are happy to wait.

If you are worried, it's worth asking the question. You can get the hearing test done as part of the bundle.

foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 11:00

oh yes, tongue twisters are good.

Also, the school do LOTS of talking work with the children (apparently). Ds came out of school telling me that Thursday was stick your tongue out day and I was thinking what a thuggish thing to teach the children till I realised he was trying desperately hard to show me he was saying THursday and not Fursday like he normally does .

See if they do stuff at school.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:01

Sigh. I suppose so.

I'll ring the GP then. [reluctant]

That's a good tip Dragon, thank you, we've done things like this but I can't find a way of persuading her that 'sh' is different to 'ch' or 's' is different to 'th'.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:02

They do do Speech and Drama at school. [ponce] With a lady who comes in, they have to do exercises with their tongues too. And recite poetry or something. Ha ha ha, is 1932 dontchaknow..

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foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 11:04

does she wear a petticoat and a tunic with a bonnet?

She'd probably suit that get up!

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:06

Yes petticoat but with cloche hat and thick woo coat, and long brown socks and erm, string in her pocket, and a newt, and erm paper rags in her hair. That's quite a few decades rolled into one.

Perhaps they are elocution lessons? [hopeful] God I wish they were, then I wouldn't have to go and do the GP hearing thing.

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 13/12/2007 11:06

DS2 still has the same problem with R and W, he can tell the difference in what he says but they sound the same! He's just had his speech therapy referral and (IIRC, which I might not!) they said to show him the difference in how the sounds are made with a mirror and to practice with a list of words they sent me.

Someone did once post a fab link on MN to a speech therapy site which had lists of word groups to work with and what sounds to approach in which order.

foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 11:09

Sounds like it might be (elocution).

have you got a school nurse? They sort out all this sort of thing for our school.

I don't know why ds's words are so bad. He's 6 now and I have seen some improvement but probably because he is making more of a conscious effort all of a sudden (because of what they do at school I think).

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:14

I have rung the GP. Might as well look into it, or certainly her hearing, I'd feel like a mug if I didn't wouldn't I?

Mind you when she went to the opticians recently she basically pretended she couldn't see anything at all. Was shocking attention-seeking behaviour, and utterly nuts really, and she thought she was hilarious.

I am therefore approaching a hearing test with a heavy heart.

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foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 11:19

lol - Dd is a bit like that and I was very relieved to see all they did for the hearing test was shove some headphones around her ears (I don't know what that bit does - but a graph was printed out at the end of it and all she had to do was sit there!).

There was one bit where she had to say whether she could hear sounds but I scarpered at that point and I think she paid more attention because I wasn't around iyswim.

The waiting list will probably be months long anyway.

Myrrhcy · 13/12/2007 11:21

Moondog should be able to advise you if you see her around.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:21

Yes I think scarpering will be in order probably.

Right am off to clean or rather over-turn my house. Somewhere between picking up my specs in the bathroom and going to say goodnight to children I have lost my glasses. I have an old pair with one arm on at the moment, and they will have to do for driving etc if I can't find them.

This is the perfect measure of how organised we are as a family. No wonder the poor girl can't speak properly, we all rush about half-blind wearing broken specs and talking too fast.

I shall practise speaking slowly while I search.

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ahundredtimes · 13/12/2007 11:22

Oh thanks. I shall keep an eye out for moondog.

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foxinsocks · 13/12/2007 11:31

aah good luck. You have just reminded me about a thread i wanted ot post!

bigshopper · 13/12/2007 12:44

One of my friend's children had her adenoids out because of not hearing and speaking clearly and then she was fine, almost immediately. She was about 6 at the time.

POOKAingwenceslaslookedout · 13/12/2007 12:51

I have a lisp. Was told that when adult teeth came through would prob go. But actually, when adult teeth came through I needed a fair amount of ortodontistry. And by then, was so used to saying 's' in a lispy way that it never went.
I used to practice on my own, in front of a mirror, when I was about 9. But never had any speech therapy.
TBH now I'm used to it. It's part of me and the way I speak. But I am extra watchful about my children's pronunciation, because if either of them had a lisp I think I would want to stop it IYSWIM. I do remember being teased, which wasn't much fun, but as an adult it's something people often positively comment on rather than a negative.

TooTickyDoves · 13/12/2007 19:41

Don't know about lisps but we have done the speech therapy thing with ds2.

adventuregirl · 13/12/2007 19:44

I had a lisp when I was younger. I went to speech and drama too, and did poety recitals (!). I dont lisp anymore, so it could well help your dd.

GLAMpresentsforMAMAplease · 13/12/2007 19:50

Not sure if this will be any help but from an adult perspective.....
I have a lisp too, apparently it's rather cute
Had elocution and substantial amounts of orthodontistry and 27 teeth removed due to smalll jaw. (sound like foghorn leghorn though) Some of those teeth were milk teeth mind. My lisp is only really noticeable if I'm tired or a bit tipsy. And don't ever ask me to say Sissy Spacek . Which reminds me, once I took DD to a speech therapist and had to tell her exdh's address which at the time was 66c Settles Street. She felt my pain!