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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Preschool teachers often have no training or educational/special needs background.  People often rely on them for advice but they may not have the experience.

Do get a speech evaluation.  More than likely your child may only need a few months to correct it.  The longer you wait the harder it is to correct and it can impact him in school.  Many people dismiss it and say wait, but waiting is the worst thing you can do.  My child has been in speech for years and gets penalized for articulation issues when it comes to reading. [/quote]

NP here. I agree with this post.

In preschool, DD had one problem: Pronouncing "th" as if it were "v" -- father came out favver, and so on. It's not uncommon but it's also not good to leave it alone. Our preschool had a speech therapist who came in weekly and worked with all the kids on sounding out letters and words (yeah, it was a great preschool and had a lot of extras like this). She contacted us about the "th" problem but was very careful to note that she could provide a list of possible speech therapists and was not trying to get the job. Long story short, we did use her; she told it us it likely would take about four months, maybe a bit more, to work through the problem, and that's just what happened. After four months DD was done and no longer mispronounced "th." We worked a lot with DD at home, too. It was key that the therapist was great with preschool-aged kids and made the therapy sessions a ton of fun.

I agree that the longer you wait, the harder it may be to correct problems. I've heard parents do the "They grow out of it, right?" thing and their kids are now young teens and I'm hearing speech issues that no one ever got around to dealing with. I work with middle and high school aged kids a lot, and am sometimes so sorry that parents didn't get some kids speech therapy long ago.... Get your child evaluated and if need be, get your child speech therapy.[/quote]

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