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Kudra :maybe_verified:

OMG I have to laugh. I've been worried about my daughter's expressive speech. She's got very persistent final consonant deletion,
despite her comprehension being very advanced, so I was thinking she would just catch up in time, but it's bothering me enough that I've done more research and am putting together tools to more explicitly tackle this at home and if I don't see progress by her 2nd birthday I am expecting I'll probably look for a referral to a speechie. Image of cards attached: I repurposed some free Disney cards from Woolies for the backs, heh.

After her nap she sees the cards and is curious about them, and I start explaining them. She suddenly says "poopoo!" and I ask if she needs to do a poopoo and she says "ya!" so I whip off her nappy and onto the potty she goes, and for the first time (on the 3rd day of toilet training!) she perfectly executes both a poo and a wee, no misses! She gets to play with the sparkly 💩plushie (also attached) and flush the pretend toilet - I guess these "carrots" have been successful and good rewards for success (plus the book "Once Upon A Potty" which she was obsessed with for the past week, which was what prompted the official start 😊) Very proud. Then 10 minutes later, same thing, another successful poop in the potty! A hour later, I'm temporarily in another room when she calls out "poopoo" so we were slightly late and she was frustrated at the miss, but then peed in the potty, and quite happy after that. I'm sure there will be more misses in the future,
but I'm pretty happy with today.

In other parenting news, on our walking yesterday we found a plush toy kangaroo. Today from an op shop I bought a plush sparkly cat, because I know she is a sucker for cute sparkly things (so am I if I'm honest). The cat fell out of her pram somewhere walking home today 😂 I'd like to think another child has found it just like she found the kangaroo yesterday, though I think they will have got the better deal.

#parenting #PottyTraining #PottyTrainingTips #PoopEmoji #SpeechTherapy #upcycling
28 Aug 2023 at 6:54 | Open on aus.social
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John Lindsay

@kudra relax into this parenting thing. She’ll develop socially appropriate speech mannerisms as soon as she’s embedded in a peer group.

28 Aug 2023 at 9:31 | Open on aus.social
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@bigjsl ummm... speech mannerisms? This is her not being able to be understood, with, for example, bear, bunny, ball and butterfly all sounding fairly similar while she can clearly demonstrate she knows what they all are (independently names them and can point to an image of directly if named) and is physically capable of making the different sounds needed, she just hasn't put together the need to be more specific when expressing. It's not just an issue of not having developed the capacity to vocalise specific sounds, which is normal to take more time to resolve than 24 months.

@bigjsl ummm... speech mannerisms? This is her not being able to be understood, with, for example, bear, bunny, ball and butterfly all sounding fairly similar while she can clearly demonstrate she knows what they all are (independently names them and can point to an image of directly if named) and is physically capable of making the different sounds needed, she just hasn't put together the need to be more specific when expressing. It's not just an issue of not having developed the capacity to vocalise...

28 Aug 2023 at 11:07 | Open on aus.social
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