Best speech pathologist to treat a lisp?

[Anonymous]

My child has a very noticeable lisp and we’ve been doing speech for a year now, and frankly I see no improvement even with the tongue/lip tie release. Has anyone had experience successfully treating a lisp in an older child? If so, who helped them? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Was there any continuing myofunctional therapy after the release? Is the speech therapy private or at school? How old is your kid? If the lisp was/is due the tongue/lip tie, someone more specialized in the muscles and anatomy could be helpful.

[Anonymous]

Also curious if your SLP ever mentioned myofunctional therapy or eval. My young child has a lisp/tongue thrust and we were referred to a myofunctional therapist to determine why she is lisping - it can be a muscular issue, structural issue (like a high palate) or a motor planning one.

[Anonymous]

How old is the kid?
Can the kid hear the difference in correct vs incorrect production?
When you say "lisp" do you mean substitution of TH for S and SH?
"Thally thellth theathellth" for "Sally sells seashells".
Age, awareness of errors and desire to improve are the biggest factors (imo). Any qualified SLP should be able to help.
-School based SLP

[Anonymous]

We saw Rachel at District Speech and then left with her for The Speech Space, where DS graduated a couple years ago. Worked on Ls and Ss and took a while for the lisp to finally leave but eventually it clicked. Keep with it!

[Anonymous]

Any SLP be able to help with a lisp. If there is not progress in a year, I’d question if your child has poor attention, self-awareness, motivation, and desire to change their speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any SLP be able to help with a lisp. If there is not progress in a year, I’d question if your child has poor attention, self-awareness, motivation, and desire to change their speech.

blame the child, really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any SLP be able to help with a lisp. If there is not progress in a year, I’d question if your child has poor attention, self-awareness, motivation, and desire to change their speech.

I hope you’re not an SLP.

[Anonymous]

Monica Maines at National Speech located in Bethesda. She helped my son overcome his lisp in 2 months. Never needed speech therapy again! She was great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any SLP be able to help with a lisp. If there is not progress in a year, I’d question if your child has poor attention, self-awareness, motivation, and desire to change their speech.

blame the child, really?

Yes, one year should be adequate time to correct only a lisp in a school aged child. If a child isn’t making that progress, then why not? It’s not typically due to the clinicians skills. It’s typically related to attention, executive function, and motivation of the student. Possibly a structural issue with the mouth, but that is not very common. And yes, I’m an experienced, skilled speech therapist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any SLP be able to help with a lisp. If there is not progress in a year, I’d question if your child has poor attention, self-awareness, motivation, and desire to change their speech.

blame the child, really?

Yes, one year should be adequate time to correct only a lisp in a school aged child. If a child isn’t making that progress, then why not? It’s not typically due to the clinicians skills. It’s typically related to attention, executive function, and motivation of the student. Possibly a structural issue with the mouth, but that is not very common. And yes, I’m an experienced, skilled speech therapist.

Well then please post your name so we can all avoid you. Children often have overlapping challenges, so if you are that unable to work with kids with very common attention and exec function needs, I would never send any of my referrals your way.

[Anonymous]

It is BOTH true that things like attention deficits and lack of intrinsic motivation can contribute to slow progress AND that it falls under the responsibility of the clinician to accommodate these circumstances. Rather than blame the clinician or the child, let's just help this parent find a better match by recommending therapists we've had good experiences with.