Our 8 year old daughter is non verbal, slowly getting to her first 100 or so words.
What we have noticed is that she incorrectly sequences the letters in a word.
for example:
Snow = NowS
Swing = WingS
It seems strongest with the letter S yet we have heard it with other word/letter combinations.
Has anyone had a similar situation? We are unable to understand ( with help of SLP) what is going on. Any previous experiences might just send us in the right direction...
Thanks!
I recently read about Apraxia of Speech and this seems to be a little like that. I dont know much about it but it basically means someone with AOS has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently. May want to bring this up with their doctor and see what they recommend. Best wishes!
I taught my son words for example...UN...thats chicken but we are working towards communications where others will hear chicken. Though I know what he wants others would not. I hold strong to communicate by all means be that orcs, iPad etc. Hope this helps
Thanks all, as she is still in the very early stages in her speech it seems to be a conversion issue from hearing to repeating/speaking.
We will ( as we all do) keep on keeping on.... until we have figured it out!
It could be confusing her with the rules of "s" finding its way on so many words like we can take most every word and add an "s" on it. Like the word "slide" becomes "slides" or "play" becomes "plays"... If she is doing this in verbally saying it then it seems to me that she is a strong reader and is seeing the word like a picture as she says it which is quite a gift to be able to do but maybe processing the "s" after she has seen the word but knows it is missing so adds it to the end to show she remembered it...I hope this makes sense and is helpful in some way...even writing it out, she could be showing that she remembered it.. It seems positive to me, definitely a great job y'all are doing there!
Oops pecs