DD age 6 has a lisp - should I be concerned?

[Aixoise]

My DD age 6 lisps when pronouncing "s" sounds ie "yeth" instead of "yes". I assumed she would grow out of this but she doesn't seem to be. Am mostly concerned that she will get bullied/ the piss taken out of her. Her teacher has not commented on it and otherwise her speech, vocabulary and reading are good. Can we try and help her correct it or should she see a speech therapist? Also - she has gappy teeth, I don't know if this is a factor or not? Any advice would be appreciated :)

I have a lisp, never had any therapy for it and I don't ever remember my parents or any teacher discussing it. It's not a problem, no one bullied me or even commented on it growing up, and I train and present as part of my job and it's never been an issue. Maybe it's just not that much of a lisp! (Though I've heard myself, it's definitely there)

So I wanted to say that it really isn't a problem for everyone and it's perfectly fine to have one and not suffer any side effects.

Having said that, I would say it's worth talking to someone when she is still a child and seeing if it is something that can be corrected in some way. As much as I say it isn't an issue to me, I probably would have preferred it if someone had tried to correct mine. Though I guess you have to walk a careful line that if it isn't correctable, you don't want to give your daughter an issue around it. But a chat with a therapist would surely be a good thing?

I have a lisp, I would most certainly recommend contacting your local Speech and Language Therapy team. I still get bullied now as an adult! I have learnt to live with it, and speech therapy was hard but it did improve my lisp a lot.

Hi. My son is now 5 and when I noticed his lisp just before he turned 4. I took him to a speech therapist (you can phone up and self refer). He had the lisp with s and quite a few other letters. She did some fun tests with him and said to come back in 6 months as there was still time to grow out of it. It was still there when he was 4.5 so we went back and she felt it was a good time for therapy. We went for about 5 or 6 sessions and my son loved it. I was amazed by how quick his lisp stopped with the s letter and after this the others just seemed to correct themself. I would definitely go now as she said that when they get a bit older they are less motivated to play the games so it can be more difficult to correct.

I had a lisp as a child. I was never bullied. I quite liked my lisp, but I hues it wasn't very strong. I also had gappy teeth. When I was 12 I got a brace, the gap closed and the lisp went away. Incedently, my dad aslo has the gap and a mild lisp. My nephew also.

Dd1 had a lisp and I had hoped she would outgrow it. It caused her to drool a wee bit too.
When she was 5 I arranged a referral a after 6 x 20 min sessions with therapist ( and practice at home) it was barely noticeable.