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How to help dd pronounce her name?

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Anon682 · 21/07/2022 12:21

And when should they be able to do this?

Dd (3 and a half) has a longish name, let's say "Elizabeth". Myself and nursery call her Elizabeth, but dad, grandparents, friends, all shorten it to "Beth"

If someone asks dd her name she says "Eff" if I ask her full name she'll say "Izzeff"

I didn't think too much of it until she had a hospital appointment the other day and was asked to confirm her name, she replied Eff, and they ended up triple checking her identity to make sure I'd brought the right bloody child! 😂

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FatGirlSwim · 26/01/2023 09:14

palelavender · 26/01/2023 05:12

Seriously though, an ENT specialist once wearily told me that the number one cause of a delay in speech was a hearing problem. My youngest fooled us, nursery staff, doctors and a speech language therapist. He was very good at picking up non-verbal clues and it is likely he taught himself to lipread. He had to have speech therapy to catch up because children acquire sounds at different ages and he had missed some of those sounds. Children with glue ear, for example, may hear well enough to follow instructions but not well enough to say those words themselves.

He loved chocolate and didn't get much of it. I was behind him and was offering to buy him a chocolate bar and there wasn't even a flicker that he heard me. It was then I realised just how deaf he was because he'd have sold his soul for a chocolate bar. He got grommets for glue ear.

There is a lot of prejudice about glue ear but my son was the second child who had every advantage including a big warm house with a garden in an exclusive suburb with private medical care on tap. It is not just a disease of overcrowding and poverty. Within a week of the hearing test he was in having a grommets insertion (as the surgeon had a gap on her private list). She told me his ears were particularly bad so his hearing really was minimal.

While we were waiting for the grommets, the advice was to get down low with the child and speak clearly and loudly while facing the child to maximise the chances of the child hearing.

I’m in my forties, had glue ear as a child, grommets inserted, seen hundreds of children have grommets inserted when I worked in hospitals, and this is the first time I’ve ever been made aware that there’s a stigma associated with it. How on Earth would poverty and overcrowding affect the eustachian tubes?!

Columbina · 26/01/2023 09:20

I thought glue ear was linked to passive smoking? And that's where the stigma comes from?

RandomMess · 26/01/2023 09:43

Glue ear is due to the Eustachian tube not draining away the fluid build up. We tend to grow out of it because it becomes more angled and therefore the fluid can drain away more easily.

Colds and illness can increase fluid build up which is why it can come and go on its own however once physical hearing has improved the brain has to play catch up in relearning how to hear again which is why it's a major impact on young children as they learn speech.

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SheWoreYellow · 26/01/2023 09:46

If you are worried about her being behind, you can check the usual ages for each sound, eg here
www.ghc.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/CLST-When_Children_Learn_Sounds.pdf

I’d just enjoy the ‘Eff’ for now though. It’s just a family nickname.

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