Wondered if anyone can help? DS was diagnosed with a mild expressive language delay when he was 3. He has come on in leaps and bounds since then and I have no concerns with his speech. He was signed off from the Speech and Language clinic when he was just over 4, never had speech therapy, just things that we did with him at home. They also said his attention & listening skills were delayed but again, we have had no particular concerns of late.
He has been bringing home 'sound books' from nursery (they do Letterland) and he has started school in January and he has a sound book to learn his sounds. At nursery he didn't 'get' the whole sound thing at all. He knew Annie Apple went 'a' but that was it. I didn't push it, just read to him instead. Now going through them at school he still has no idea. He still thinks they all say 'a'. He knows what a-g are called but has no idea of their sounds. SIL is a reception teacher and thinks my time would be better spent getting him to match letters so he recognises them and back off with the sounds at the moment. Whilst talking we both wondered if his slight speech delay would also affect him 'hearing' and forming these sounds. He does have the ability to form all sounds. Tonight I tried again, just concentrated on abc. Did them a few times, me saying 'Bouncing Ben says bbb'. Then his turn 'Bouncing Ben says aaa'.
I will speak to his teacher, but SIL was saying that as a teacher she knows very little about the impact of a speech delay and now they don't even see any SALT's in the schools there is no opportunity to talk or discuss issues like this. Any nice SALT's out there that can help?