Olivia's had some problem with parts of speech for a while now. She had beautiful diction when she was little, but outside influence eroded it.
She doesn't pronounce her r's properly. The English accent doesn't help. I've put her on the waiting list for the HSE speech therapist, but it will be 6 months before she's assessed and maybe another 6 before anyone sees her for, um, treatment?
It's all ok, I'm sure. Except. Yesterday, she started pronouncing her w's in the back of her throat. Not making the wuh souund with her lips at all. You know the one, like if you say 'way' without moving your lips. And she's doing that with her r's too. Like Johnathan Woss. What to do??
Wuv... human wuv...
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I have no idea. Great clip, though.
hmmm send her to Italy and we'll have her trilling those rrr's like cwazy!
When I had to teach adult Italians to say the r I made them put a pencil between their top lip and nose and they had to say "run, run, rabbit, run" until they could do it without the pencil falling. The only way to keep the pencil there is to make an exaggerated form with your lips for the r.
It was fun to do and drove the point home though I doubt any of them really can do a correct r sound.
I would suggest word games and exaggerated mouth/lip/tongue movements to help her. (make it silly) and turn everything into a game like when you talk it all begins with r (like scooby doo) or w or whatever letter so she won't get self-conscious.
It'll pass though. She's still young and easily influenced by Johnathan Woss!
I don't know either - I did find some great Canadian educational videos online that helped me teach Jack his "th" but I'm not sure that's helpful just now. I HATE the concept of waiting lists.
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