advice please DGS requires speech therapy

My oldest grandson seemed rather late talking. For a while it seemed to be just a few single words. Like so many others once he started he never shut up!

When his mother was about seven I took her to the doctor for some reason. She was going through a phase of using silly voices. The doctor (who really had no sense of humour) asked if she always talked like that and, like an idiot, I said yes. He then started asking if I had thought about speech therapy and had no idea why I was laughing.

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Cossy

Grrrr just realised this is another old thread!! How do these get here??

What an intolerant attitude, it first was discussed 10 yrs ago, no reason at all that it should be outlawed now

Except the child concerned will have received the therapy but no one knows how it turned out?

I am assuming it all went well and there was nothing to worry about.

It seems silly replying to a post about a toddler who now will be in his teens?

Don't worry ! My son had speech therapy- made a huge difference.
Your GS is very young , all will be well.

It’s nothing to worry about. Boys are slow developers compared to girls. My little GS had speech therapy but I don’t think it was ever really a problem. Now a teenager he never stops chattering.

Cossy

Grrrr just realised this is another old thread!! How do these get here??

What an intolerant attitude, it first was discussed 10 yrs ago, no reason at all that it should be outlawed now

Grrrr just realised this is another old thread!! How do these get here??

Please don’t worry, our son had speech therapy when in primary school because he couldn’t say certain sounds properly, he attended once a week for around an hour and brought home “exercises” to do at home.

He went for one school term, and has been fine ever since (he’s now 23!)

The speech therapists were absolutely lovely, kind and patient.

Your dear GDS will be fine, they can also pick up other potential issues and he’s so young he should do very well

Hmmm thread over 10 years old. Interesting topic though.

M0nica

I had a friend whose child barely spoke at all until he was three, just grunted. As his first appointment arrived to see a speech therapist,he decided to speak, quite fluently. He was later found to be dyslexic, but I do not think there is any link between two problems.

Conversely the people that I know that are dyslexic are very good talkers, they seem to make up for word blindness by explaining stuff a lot.

Would love to hear how that has worked out.
Does Cherrytree still post?

The child will be at high school now 🤣🤣🤣 I wonder how he turned out Cherrytree?

Oops! Old thread.

Don't worry. My Canadian grandson has phonetic dyslexia and his pronounciation was poor but we all understood him as did the other kids at school. Speech therapists are called Speech Pathologists here. The good thing was that he never minded me correcting him because he was eager to learn. I took him to weekly appointments with a Speech Pathologist for a couple of years. She was great and they had lots of fun chatting and playing board games together. He's a happy 14yr. old chatterbox now with perfect speech and a lovely Canadian accent! He's overcome his speech difficulties completely and although he gets top marks for science, technology and maths he'll never be keen on reading but nevertheless he manages to get average marks for English.

Reported William1234 for reviving this ZOMBIE thread from 10 years ago!!

My great grandson has speech therapy. He is 3. It has helped and he is speaking a lot more now. He understands everything, just won’t talk much. Seems to be more the boys perhaps. I only had girls and there were no issues.

Both my boys had speech therapy, I could understand them, but others couldn't. If they were at my mum's without me, she would phone me up and get them to speak on the phone for me to tell her what they were saying, she would get upset that she didn't know what they were saying. Speech therapy was one to one, I would leave them for an hour and go into town, the sessions were like playgroup, based around playing with farm animals, blocks and picture cards, it was very relaxed and casual but did the trick. Neither of them went for very long, I can't remember exactly, it was 30 years ago. From babies, I spoke to the boys constantly, and had a pram and pushchair facing me to enable conversation, but delayed speech is just one of those things. Cherrytree, I'm sure your little grandson will enjoy his sessions with the speech therapist and will be talking in no time 🙂.

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My youngest grandson had speech therapy just after he started at nursery aged just turned 3. He chattered a lot, and we could understand him, but they were concerned about it, so he had 3 sessions with a therapist who came to the nursery. One day she gave him a pile of cards with pictures on, asked him to tell her what they were. He got one wrong, he came to a picture of a mouse, and said "RAT"! Well, he was nearly right!

Thank you so much you have all put my mind at rest.
A lot of what has been so thoughtfully said I can to relate to with my DGS.
I am going to take on board all the good advice. Which I can also pass on to my DD.
I am now feeling much more positive,
Gransnet is great
Where else can you get such positive information and personal experience

Our DS2 was referred for speech therapy at 2.5, everyone kept telling me that once he started talking he'd struggle to stop, so true. My nephew was even later talking, he didn't have speech therapy but had to start talking when his new child minder refused to respond to his sign language.
i think in both cases it was something to do with being second child.

My Son, now 41 and particularly articulate, needed speech therapy at the age of four. I had to fight for this because the doctors said he was just a slow speaker but I knew it was more than that. I am called Nain (nine) due to my Welsh connections and his word for that was "Ta". He thought he was saying the right words but the sounds coming out bore no relation so that led to a lot of frustration when we were unable to satisfy his requests. After six months of speech therapy he was speaking perfectly properly. Their techniques are different to how we might tackle it. For instance, to encourage his "fs" I was getting him to repeat words like flower, but instead of words starting with the difficult letter, they use words with it in the middle. So please do not be alarmed. It really is a very common situation and can be overcome with the right treatment. I suppose "therapy" sounds a bit drastic; think of it more as correction.

My DGS was the same Gagagran with the s and f. If he was hungry he would ask for 'sood'. He is six now and it has virtually corrected itself. He had speech therapy and everyone was relaxed about it. He is bright and happy and, though he was late starting to talk, he understood everything and babbled constantly as a tiny tot. He has always been talked to and read to a lot and his younger sister is fine. Don't worry Cherrytree I expect he will be perfectly OK soon.

DS had ST between 4-5 he showed difficulty with certain letter sounds but after a couple of blocks of weekly sessions he's never looked back. By the time he started school he had no speech problems.
DGS who will be 4 in a few weeks has been having sessions on and off for two years now. I would go in with him and the whole thing to him was a game. The therapist would devise things like blow football and bubble blowing games to help him form his mouth/tongue into the correct shape. He loves Joanna and thinks a visit to her is a treat
Please don't be too concerned S.A.L.T. are amazing in what they can help a patient??? achieve.

My grandson showed little interest in talking until he was just over three. His nursery started to worry that he wouldn't be talking by the time he went to school at 4. A tick box problem I think. He was referred for speech therapy. By the time his appointment came through he was talking well and by five he had a surprisingly large vocabulary.

Cherrytrees - the therapy may well either make no difference or positively help him. It's not something to worry about. He'll most likely find it an interesting activity.

My DGS is over 2 and a half and has delayed speech. He is only now managing a very few words, not terribly clearly, but we can tell what they are by the inflexion and context. He passed the audiology tests and has been referred to a speech therapist. We aren't overly concerned, as it's clear he's a bright little boy. His brother wasn't an early talker either and now, at nearly 10, is a bright and intelligent child.
So please don't worry Cherrytree - as you can see from the posts here, it is much more common than you think.