SPEECH - any SALT's who can help?

[mummyofboys]

Have also posted this on Behav/Devt.

My ds is 5.4 He had what was described as a 'moderate' speech delay at age 2.8. SALT said he had some 'immature' sounds that she did not expect to cause 'long term' problems. He was developing better speech/vocab etc on starting reception aged 4yrs (August baby). During the 1st year at school he came on leaps and bounds.

He's teachers have said they have no concerns over his speech and language, but I'm not so sure. He still add 'ed' onto many words eg: I sawed instead of saw and eated instead of ate. Sometimes he also appears to talk very fast with 'lazy' pronunciation. Am I paranoid because of his delay or is this normal for his development? Also, he just couldn't get the name Joseph in the nativity - called him Jovis ?

I listen to him and his expression and pronouncing does sound younger then some of his peers - although he has a great vocab and understanding of spoken language.

Never bumped myself before .. feels quite nice

It woulkd be of no great concern to me as a salt. You can cvorrect him yourself and it should be enough.

Thanks Moondog - I'll gently guide him.

You do realise now of course that there will soon be a thread in the Baby Names section called "What do you think of Jovis for a boy?"

Ds2 (5) still does the thing with 'ed' on the end of words. It can take a little while but correcting him does seem to work eventually. Conversations go something like this:

• "I eated a biscuit at school today."

• "You ate a biscuit? I wish I had some biscuits."

Ds2 doesn't realise he's being corrected but it sinks in over time.

DS2's name is actually Joseph, DS5 (3.6y) calls him 'Jophis' - i assumed its because its quite difficult to get his tongue around those syllables... but perhaps he prefers it