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[quote=Anonymous]OP, of course you understand your child. You and the people around the child have been conditioned to the oddities of speech.
When an outsider mentions it, take it seriously.

I thought my child's speech was fine too, but someone mentioned that certain sounds were funny. After a few sessions with a speech therapist, it was discovered that my child had a submucuous cleft - invisible unless one sticks a scope down her throat. This required surgery to correct. She could not enunciate certain consonants that require closure of the upper palate - g, some s sounds. Spongebob would be enunciated as 'pongebob'. Girl was sounded out as 'nurl'.
Of all the ENT doctors my child saw, only none of them took it seriously until the speech therapist (who was REALLY good), pointed me to an ENT dr. who was knowledgeable about this condition which then led us to cleft palate teams at hospitals.

Only you can get your child any help they need. Don't ignore it or get defensive when someone makes an observation that something is amiss.[/quote]

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