SLP ladies, please come in!

hokiemama06

Thomas has tongue tie, which we've known from day 1.  We elected not to get his frenulum clipped as an infant, since he was having absolutely no difficulty feeding/gaining weight and decided to do a "wait and see" approach to see if it needed to be done.  

I understand that tongue tie may impact his speech, and wanted to know which sounds are most effected by tongue tie so that I can be listening for them and trying to work on them with him as we go along.  My MIL's background is in speech, so I could ask her, but get the strong indication that they feel we should've already had him clipped, and (like many of us) the last thing I need is one more open door to invite comment.  TIA!

hokiemama06

Thanks @hijoi.  Nice to hear about someone else who has experience with this.  

I feel like the research I've done has shown that there's strategies that can help them overcome any speech problems if they present, but I'm just not one to have things done if they're not necessary, KWIM?

grimesk12

Okay. I'm an SLP who was trained that clipping is not necessary. I did some research on asha.org and found a survey that was conducted on tx methods. The most common method of treatment for ankyloglossia was traditional articulation therapy. Most slps recommended clipping only if there was a feeding/swallowing issue. The sounds most likely to be affected would be lingual-alveolar (t,d,n,l) and lingual-dental (th) (asha leader, 2005). The same article states that an articulation disorder may co-occur but not be caused by the tongue tie.
Hope this helps

hokiemama06

@grimesk12 - Thank you!  That makes sense, since we're not hearing too much of those sounds.  We'll see what we can do to practice those.  Thank you for the information!