at last- 7yr dd referred tosalt

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Went to my dd parents evening last night and finally after us saying she has a problem with her speech for at least the last year her year 3 teacher has refered to speech and language.
The main problems she has is differentiating L/W/R and V/F/TH sounds, she mixes them up in speech, and for l-w-r tends to say an amalgm of the sounds. A few months ago we had a very frustrating conversation til I realised she talking about a VAN not a FAN(dont know who was most frustrated. The problem is this now affecting her written work as when she sounds the words out she gets the letters- once spelt with as rif etc. Her yr1 teacher mentioned it but nothing was done until now inspite of us saying we were worried about it at every parents evening. Its so bloody frustrating when you know theres a problem but nobody seems to be listening.
Sorry about the long post, just wondering if anyone else has experience of this and advice

Speech and language will probably want to a referral to audiology to exclude a hearing problem as a reason for speech problems. Your GP can refer to speech and language and audiology, it might be a more quicker route.

My ds similiar problems with poor speech which affected his spelling and reading. He was diagnosed with auditory processing problems, so his hearing is fine, but finds it difficult to process sounds, it is probably worth looking up auditory processing disorder on google.