R Speech Therapy on YouTube

This is a 7 part series. For the rest see the YouTube channel: HenkelSpeechTherapy

This speech therapist recommends 300 practice repeititions a day to fix the R sound.

My younger son had speech therapy for L and R sounds when he was eight. He complied and had much progress and the therapist graduated him. I was told by that age both R and L should be correct, in the absense of a physical anomoly. Somehow my son was not using his tongue and mouth correctly.

The speech therapist said the biggest barrier to children's lack of progress is refusal to practice. She said parents are diligent about bringing their child in for appointments but they rarely did the homework. Additionally some children were not compliant in the consult itself. She said they didn't want to do it and just refused. She complimented my son on being willing and able, and for doing the homework. She said the homeschoolers were all like that and so she had a high opinion of homeschoolers. To that I said I think the homeschooled kids were used to taking Mom's orders to do this or that for homeschool lessons and so to do the speech therapy homework was just one more thing to comply with willingly.

Today my son's R sound is not perfect, it's pretty darned close so I don't criticize him or think he needs to work on it. However the kids on the sport team in grades 8-9 are teasing him. Honestly I think part of the issue is his Connecticut accent compared to the Texas accents those kids have. My son has asked that he get help for this. I am starting off with free practice using YouTube. There is too much stress in our life for me to add in private speech therapy visits and the budget is also tight.

I did not know there were speech therapy lessons on YouTube but knew from a few years ago that speech therapists were uploading video to their own websites. Today I decided to check You Tube for the heck of it and there they are.