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Nov. 22nd, 2005 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaAnother parenting dilemma for all you wise people to help me with now.
While my MIL was here she told me that if she was Mari's teacher (she was a kindergarten teacher for several years before becoming a mom) she would recommend that Mari's speech be evaluated. We had her speech evaluated right after she turned three and they said she was fine. Totally fine. Actually, better than fine, a little precocious (I told them her huge vocabulary was from all the reading we did and I still think my kids have unusually large vocabularies). Anyway, I never gave it much thought after that. My MIL concern was over her "lazy" pronunciation she said. I have always been careful to correct the pronunciation of words, at least as far as I thought it was possible for my kids. And, thinking back on it, I've had to do it a lot more for Mari than the other girls, often breaking words down into syllables and repeating them over and over (she thinks it is great fun actually.) Since my MIL said this though I've been paying closer attention and I noticed that she does have some strange problems with pronouncing words. She cannot say the "L" sound at the end of a word to save her life. She has no trouble with l at the beginning or in the middle of a word (Luci, slow, allow, etc.) But at the end of a word the sound comes out like a "w" or "oo" (hill, bill, will, etc). This is true of "r" too. At the beginning, no problem, but in this case if it is in the middle or end of the word it is a "w" sound (Laura is Loh-wa). Another word I've noticed is basket. She says "bas-tick" consistantly. There are lots of others I can't think of right now. I should make a list. I guess these sounds seem like obvious things to have trouble with for a young child, but at what point should she be able to correct them? She will be five on Christmas Eve. Should I have her evaluated? Or should I just gently and consistently correct them for awhile and wait a little while longer?
While my MIL was here she told me that if she was Mari's teacher (she was a kindergarten teacher for several years before becoming a mom) she would recommend that Mari's speech be evaluated. We had her speech evaluated right after she turned three and they said she was fine. Totally fine. Actually, better than fine, a little precocious (I told them her huge vocabulary was from all the reading we did and I still think my kids have unusually large vocabularies). Anyway, I never gave it much thought after that. My MIL concern was over her "lazy" pronunciation she said. I have always been careful to correct the pronunciation of words, at least as far as I thought it was possible for my kids. And, thinking back on it, I've had to do it a lot more for Mari than the other girls, often breaking words down into syllables and repeating them over and over (she thinks it is great fun actually.) Since my MIL said this though I've been paying closer attention and I noticed that she does have some strange problems with pronouncing words. She cannot say the "L" sound at the end of a word to save her life. She has no trouble with l at the beginning or in the middle of a word (Luci, slow, allow, etc.) But at the end of a word the sound comes out like a "w" or "oo" (hill, bill, will, etc). This is true of "r" too. At the beginning, no problem, but in this case if it is in the middle or end of the word it is a "w" sound (Laura is Loh-wa). Another word I've noticed is basket. She says "bas-tick" consistantly. There are lots of others I can't think of right now. I should make a list. I guess these sounds seem like obvious things to have trouble with for a young child, but at what point should she be able to correct them? She will be five on Christmas Eve. Should I have her evaluated? Or should I just gently and consistently correct them for awhile and wait a little while longer?
