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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
now to whine:
I was very good. I went to the doctor and got a whole bunch of things done/tested , etc that needed to happen. including a flu and tetanus shot. I will state for the record that a tetanus shot sucks. It really hurts. Yesterday was bad, but today, I still feel bad. It is going to take me forever to clean the bathroom
I was on the phone with Mom and this is what she said.
R and S are the last sounds kids make usually, so kids aren't considered severely delayed on that until age 5 or so. R is hard because it's a vowel and constant sound, so it's tricky.
For the L sound, for right now, if she says a word with L and she says it wrong, just repeat it back. Like, if she says "Gramma lives in Awabama" say something like "That's right! She lives in Alabama." And you can do maybe get her to sing "la la la la la" with you to help her practice.
Thanks!
Yesterday, K-Bug was reading Bitches over my shoulder and asked me to scroll up. She asked when I changed my online name and that what I wrote didn't sound like me. I was puzzled, but scrolled up to the post in question. It was Susan W. While that is my legal first name and last initial, I had NEVER pinged on that. It made me realize I just don't self identify as Susan at all. It was a strange realization.
How funny--sorry I confused K-Bug!
Your welcome!
I cracked up, cause I had NO CLUE what she was referring to. She had to point out the post.
Susan, if she can say the sounds the right way sometimes, then it sounds like waiting for the next evaluation is a good idea.
I was in speech therapy for L's and S's elementary school. The exercise I remember is "Little Lucy loves lemon lollipops." I still don't do well on "She sells sea shells on the seashore," which is the S one I remember. Part of my problem with L's is that I wasn't making them correctly; I was putting my tongue on my teeth rather than on the pallet.
Yeah, Mallory doesn't do R or L correctly either, which is a bummer given his name. As far as he and his classmates are concerned, he's Mau-wee. Or Maui, I guess. "Lefligelator" is my current favorite Mallish word (that would be refrigerator), although "ocelot" (which he says correctly) is pretty cute.
He also transposes T and C in some words: Tookie and cassel, although he says car and castle and tr- words fine.
I despair of ever getting the kid potty trained, though.