Joni Zander

> In a message dated 2/26/2005 5:18:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> sandrewmama@... writes:
>
> She is seven and three months old. At what point, if ever, should I
> be
> concerned enough about her speech to seek professional help? I've
> talked to
> her before about her R's. She knows that she cannot speak the true R
> sound
> and I've had her focus on how I say a word with R in it so that she
> recognizes that the word is spelled with an R not a W. I certainly
> don't
> want to do anything to discourage her from writing and she doesn't
> care very
> much that her invented spelling is difficult for some to read.
>


My now 8.5 year old has had pronunciation problems, mostly with R's.
Other than my older daughter and other kids correcting her
occasionally, we left her alone. I had wondered a couple of times
(while listening to other moms talk about the speech therapy they were
getting for their kid, or asking me if I had looked into "fixing"
Steffi's speech), if we should "do something" about it. I don't know
when she stopped having trouble with R's, but she doesn't any more.
It's certainly been in the last year, maybe in the last six months.

She is a pre-reader/writer, so I don't have any experience with the
writing, but I'm sure that your daughter will self correct the spelling
as she self corrects the speech - when she is ready!

Joni Zander
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