A few weeks ago I was doing a Home Visit for one of our little guys with moderate speech delays. He's a real sweetie, very quiet. I knew he had older brothers but didn't realize the brother in Kindergarten would be home during our visit. No problem, it's always good to have a peer to practice taking turns with.
I had brought along a fishing game to work on his "f" sound, for him "f" comes out "b" so "fish" is "bish", etc.
As I pulled out the game his brother exclaimed, "I want to play the bish game!"
I noted his older brother had the same speech sound error, interesting but not uncommon. Now I can give both kids some practice on their "f" sounds.
We played the game well, both boys needing lots of reminding & prompting to make their proper "f" sounds. When it was done I pulled out Candyland. The older brother had a total meltdown when he didn't get to go first. And I mean melt down. Screaming, throwing things, full freak out.
What was the first thing that came to my mind? The first thing I noticed when this child became borderline violent?
Interesting. He doesn't have his "f" sound for "fish" but he does for "f*$k you, mom".
Yup, I've clearly been in Early Ed waaaaay too long...
No comments:
Post a Comment