I have a four year old dck with some speech issues. Not sure if this child is delayed or if they are just having some other difficulties, but at 4.5 he is hard to understand, have a lot of downright WEIRD pronunciations, bizarre sound substitutions, and even his parents and I have a hard time understanding him--we get maybe (maybe) 75% of what he says.
I have gently suggested to dcm that he needs an evaluation for speech issues, and she looked shocked. She's even complained/mentioned his problems before, but still acted surprised that I think his speech is abnormal.
Thing is, people who have never met him before comment to me about his speech. And some of his pronunciations are getting weirder.
How can the parent not see/admit that her kid doesn't speak as well as he should at 4.5? How can parents just assume that it's all normal? It's NOT normal! I seriously do not understand how parents doesn't get this stuff.
I have gently suggested to dcm that he needs an evaluation for speech issues, and she looked shocked. She's even complained/mentioned his problems before, but still acted surprised that I think his speech is abnormal.
Thing is, people who have never met him before comment to me about his speech. And some of his pronunciations are getting weirder.
How can the parent not see/admit that her kid doesn't speak as well as he should at 4.5? How can parents just assume that it's all normal? It's NOT normal! I seriously do not understand how parents doesn't get this stuff.
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