Lisping at 4.5- will she grow out of it???

[onebadbaby]

Hi- my daughter still has a lisp, an interdental one where the tongue protrudes between her teeth, and the advice I have read says to refer to speech and language around this age. I just wondered if anyone else had a child who still does this, and what they have done about it. I was hoping she would grow out of it because I don't really want to have speech therapy sessions. Is there still a chance she might grow out of it. She mis-pronounces a few other sounds too eg she says 'd' instead of 'th' words like 'the' becomes 'de'. Is this age appropriate?? Pleas advise me, should I contact my hv

I lisped horrendously- but don't now. No idea when I stopped. but I wouldn't worry.
Maybe someone else has more medical info for you.

My DD aged 6 has a lisp - (tongue out for "s" and "t" (ie both sound like "th" - my sister who lives abroad who is speak therapist said need to go to GP to get referral if still lisping aged 5.

Anyway my sister showed me what to do and we have been practising each day... we went to referal who said it wasn't severe enough for treatment on NHS but that I should continue to practise with her.

It might be an idea to have a couple of sessions just so the therapist can show you how to help?

DD's much better now but I still have to remind her tongue in. Sometimes with a lisp larger adult front teeth can help - so you might want to wait until then?

When DS went for speech therapy at about age 5 or 6 (is now 16), he lisped, when they started to treat him for the lisp, when doing the excercises he started to twitch his eyes, they stopped him there and then and said that the habit of his eyes twitching would be harder to cure than a lisp.

They did say that as he got older if became conscience of it, then he could go back to them. He has actually grown out of it now - but just wanted you to know that treatment may cause other issues.

If you are really woried about it I would definitely recommend seeing a speech therapist.