Comments on: Why I'll never be a speech therapist

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:47:29 +0000

My 7 year old has difficulty pronouncing “s”. I am looking for suggestions on how to correct this.

By: Teaching Mom

Teaching Mom — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:43:58 +0000

Sometimes it's really hard to teach my child proper pronunciation because I just love hearing her incorrectly pronounce some words. Now that she's learning to talk properly, I kinda miss those times when she'd say Gud Moyning Mommy! I guess we have to cherish these moments. Teaching Mom´s latest post: Bullying At School: How To Help Your Child Through Tough Times

By: jen

jen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:20:26 +0000

popped over here from playgroups favorites …

i’m a speech therapist too!

and i have used that one as well…

it’s all about using what you can to get the desired response. and then reminding them to keep it up.

and you don’t even have the school loans to do it … lucky you.

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By: Tina Underwood

Tina Underwood — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:25:14 +0000

See, I disagree. It’s creative thinking to come up with fun ways to get kids to pronounce words correctly. I think you would make a terrific speech therapist. It’s all about making it fun for the kid, kind of like Tom Sawyer, so they don’t realize they’re “working”.

Tina

By: Amy @ Milk Breath & Margaritas

Amy @ Milk Breath & Margaritas — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:21:08 +0000

This is hilarious! My 6 year old has a few speech quirks that are minor and I've yet to openly correct because I dread the loss of them. "It" instead of "if" is one. (It ya want to, we can play Star Wars!) The other is gwist for just. Gwist give me a minute. I gwist want to have one more. Oh my baby. Amy @ Milk Breath & Margaritas´s latest post: Monkeys and Bears Need Cages

By: Erika Jurney

Erika Jurney — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:45:43 +0000

Hey Marilyn,

Our ped said not to worry about that kind of mild speech stuff until kindergarten. So I’d just say you could occasionally remind them of the right way to say it, but wait and ask their kindergarten teacher what they think. Oh, and just smile politely when the preschool peeps raise the issue :)

See you at Xmas.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:40:31 +0000

Erika,

Brilliant, I say! Terrific approach to speech therapy! Any suggestions for how to get Rowan and Zach to correctly pronounce “s” and “f”? (Their preschool teacher thinks this is an issue — and I tend to think it is NOT an issue, since they aren’t even 3 years old yet!) If anything comes to mind as to how to teach them to say “s” as in “sat” (instead of “hat”) and “f” as in “fish” (instead of “hish”), that would be cool. And I could coax them by saying “Auntie Erika says…”

Marilyn

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:19:57 +0000

I thought speech therapists did whatever it took? Sounds like a professional approach to me. Cat´s latest post: My Honeymoon (i.e., The Most Fun I've Ever Had With a Man I Hope Never to See Again)

By: Summer

Summer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:41:33 +0000

LOL I love it! Summer´s latest post: The Chicken Story

By: Erika Jurney

Erika Jurney — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:06:59 +0000

Jennifer, Really? Hilarious! Nice to know I have another career to fall back on if this whole “typing on teh internets” thing craps out!