Someone suggested I ask here in case anyone is lurking.
Don't know if anyone's on, but I have a question -
She had her frenulum clipped a few months back and is doing great, she'll be 3 in April. She is frustrated and I'm not sure how we can help or if we even should. She learned Deck The Halls and walks around practicing L's all the time. ("Fala la la la" instead of "Fawa wa wa wa" now) She keeps practicing on her own and driving herself nuts. "Look mommy my LLLLIGHT is off!" When she does it we tell her "yayyy you did your L, good job" and that we're proud of her, etc. We don't push anything & just let her go at her own pace. But she's frustrated beyond belief and throwing tantrums here & there when she can't do it.
Any suggestions? Normal for non-tongue-tied kids? Get an eval? tia
Re: xp Speech therapy Q for my DD
It cracks me up that she walks around practicing her L's!
Honesty, I would probably wait on a speech eval, that is my totally non-educated personal answer, because although it frustrates her, it sounds like she is making progress on her own pretty quickly.
i am also a speech therapist, but I don't totally ignore errors, i find a way to say the word again in conversation and slightly overemphasize the correct sound. I am all about the early intervention for articulation. I worked with a 4 yo who was telling me about her new babysister "yiddy" She had multiple articulation errors so it was hard to figure out, her name is Lily.
I agree with the others that if her only problem is L then she is ok, is she frustrated cuz you can't understand her?