Guest elynt Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Do children with lisps have difficulty pronouncing only sibilant sounds?(Are sibilant sounds the main/ only problem they face?) Do children with lisps feel less confident speaking? If yes, why? (Is is because of their inability to pronounce sibilant sounds?) Does speech therapy also involve building confidence or is it just focused on articulation? How is a child's confidence built during therapy? What is the most common age group when children develop lisps? If the answer given is different from the lit review (from when they start speaking to 7 years old), we have to clarify if it is because of the cultural differences, different context. Does cultural difference affect the age/ frequency of children developing lisps? Are different methods of speech therapy used for children in different age groups? If different methods are used, what is the most effective method? Are different methods employed for different genders? Are there any literature written specially for children with lisps? Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krismoose Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Hi! What is your reason for asking on this forum? I'm an SLP, but I don't know what type of response you're looking for from the classically homeschooling community. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elynt Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hi krismoose! I'm actually doing a research on children with lisps and I hope to write a book that will help improve on their speech articulation (esp. sibilant sounds) as well as their confidence level when speaking. Thanks! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elynt Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 really sorry but i need answers urgently, if anyone is able to help, please do! thank you very very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Elynt, These are very interesting questions, but I suspect this isn't the right place to be asking them. Most of your questions seem to need responses from speech therapists, or even just data about pediatric speech pathologies that none of us have special access to, any more than you do. For the most part, our experiences are individual, with our own children; we can't formulate the kind of general responses you seem to need. Good luck with your research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merry gardens Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Do children with lisps have difficulty pronouncing only sibilant sounds?(Are sibilant sounds the main/ only problem they face?) Do children with lisps feel less confident speaking? If yes, why? (Is is because of their inability to pronounce sibilant sounds?) Does speech therapy also involve building confidence or is it just focused on articulation? How is a child's confidence built during therapy? What is the most common age group when children develop lisps? If the answer given is different from the lit review (from when they start speaking to 7 years old), we have to clarify if it is because of the cultural differences, different context. Does cultural difference affect the age/ frequency of children developing lisps? Are different methods of speech therapy used for children in different age groups? If different methods are used, what is the most effective method? Are different methods employed for different genders? Are there any literature written specially for children with lisps? Thanks!! I had a lisp as a child that was corrected with the help of an slp. One of mine had a lisp that I corrected and my youngest still has a lisp, so I'll answer these based on my experience. 1) Depends on the child. As I understand it, the term "lisp" relates to /s/ and /z/ sounds, but a person can have problems in those areas and other areas too. 2) Again, it depends. Lisps are fairly common for young children, so I doubt that it affects their confidence. In earlier shows of the 70's tv show The Brady Bunch, Cindy Brady spoke with a lisp-- which had a certain charm. However, as the child grows, lisps are no longer "cute". They most certain might cause embarrassment in an older child or adolescent. When as an adult I heard another adult woman speaking with a lisp, I felt a wave of gratitude towards my mother for having taken me to speech therapy. 3) Rather than "developing a lisp", it seems that lisps are normal but then at some point become a failure to continue normal speech progression. There are different kinds of lisps and some are developmentally normal, while others are "off course". (When remediating lisps, it important not to take a child off the normal course of development into some other form of lisp.) Children loose their baby teeth and grown adult teeth, so a lisp may be a temporary problem. When I first took my dd for a slp evaluation for her lisp, both her top two front teeth were loose. The slp suggested waiting until after they'd grown in to see if the problem was still there. (It was, and so we corrected it then.) Now my 5 yo has loose teeth, and while she spoke with a lisp before they got loose, her lisp is different now. A good book that I found helpful was "Frontal Lisp, Lateral Lisps" by Pam Marshall. It was written for therapists, not for children. That book would be a good resource to answer some of your questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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