Speech - Phonological Disorder

[looneytune]

Hi

I just wondered if anyone has a child with this? Ds2 is 2.9 and a little while ago had an initial assessment with a S & L therapist and we got the report back a couple of days ago. They mentioned he might have a Phonological Disorder but I guess they can't say for sure until they've seen him more, he's due to go back a week on Monday.

I'm just trying to find out more about this and what is done to help etc?

Any advice would be much appreciated :)

DD1 had a diagnosis of verbal & oral dyspraxia & phonological disorder.
In her case the specific phonological problem was a vowel distortion though the term seems to encompass a lot of things.
A child in Dd's ( language unit ) class had a specific diagnosis of phonological disorder and had virtually no intelligible speech by age 5, by age 7 his difficulty was barely detectable
There's some info here : scroll down to the part about phonological problems

It's good that they've spotted a problem early - hopefully they will explain more when you go back for the next appointment

Thanks for that, will look at the link :) I phoned the HV to discuss this over 6 months ago as I just knew something wasn't right. Some people were saying I should just leave it, it's too early to know if he's got a problem and I shouldn't worry until he's older but I KNEW something wasn't right. I've been a childminder for 6 years and had MANY babies to look after who've grown up going through learning new words/speech etc. and I could tell he was different in some way. HV agreed and referred him to audiology and S & L and I personally am pleased we've started the ball rolling early. He's had 2 audiology appointments and now has to go back in 6 months to check again, in the meantime I'm hoping we can get somewhere with the S & L sessions. Unfortunately with me working with so many families and for 11 hours a day, it's been difficult appointment wise so because dh isn't working, he's been taking him to all these appointments (which I'm finding hard as I really want to be a proper part of it). I've decided I NEED to go to S & L review a week on Monday so I can give more details (as I'm the main carer) and also understand it all a bit better. Me control freek.......NO! lol

I'll have a look at the link but must say that you saying about this 5 year old being fine by 7 is encouraging :)