Minor speech therapy ?

[Murphy101]

My young ds is dong great with his reading so far but we have two frustrations that he is stumbling over.

 

"th" always comes out as "d"

 

And -er -ir and -ur all come out as "or"

 

he can hear the difference

he has watched my face

we've worked on where to place the tongue

 

still the comes out duh

burn comes out born

bird comes out board

 

can anyone give me some tips to correct this at home?

 

tia!

[momto2blessings]

but my 7 yr. old has trouble with 'th,' too. I wrote out some sentences with lots of th's in them that he reads for me during school. A speech pathologist friend told me that when they say it wrong point to your own tongue with your teeth on it to remind them. I try to remind about once a day or so when he says a word wrong, hopefully he'll get it right soon!

 

The Dr. wasn't concerned, just said it was tongue placement. Maybe do a web search? Blessings:) Gina

[athena1277]

How old is he? Many kids have trouble with that til they are around 7yo. If he's 5 or 6, I would just gently correct him and give him time. My dd had trouble with those sounds for a long time, but it has improved a lot this school year.

[Free Indeed]

Not sure if this would be helpful...

 

http://www.fiarhq.com/~gbprnhrz/forum/showthread.php?t=57705

[ElizabethB]

These may help, they show a lot more than just looking at someone saying the sound, you get to "see" inside:

 

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

 

My phonics lesson 6 may also help, it shows contrasting pairs like f/v and th/th.