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Posted by dawnslp
on 5/5/2009, 9:59 am, in reply to "R"
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Have you considered consultative until he is ready for the /r/? Honestly, he really should be ready for /r/ now being almost 7 (if he's in first grade, he should turn 7 or is 7 now). If you look at Eric Sander's norms, 50% of kids have /r/ at the age of three and the right side of the bar is where 90% of kids produce the sound appropriately, which is around 7;2 for this chart. If you don't know which chart I cam referring to, you can find it here:
http://isd742.org/ecassessment/assets/SpeechSoundDevelopmentChart.pdf
Then, refer to this discussion on how we misuse norms. It was real eye-opener for me and shows how I was using them wrong all these years!
http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/Lofspeechnorms.pdf
In short, I would keep this child and continue to work on /r/. If you need help with /r/, email me and I will send you my structured /r/ program.
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