My daughter is 3 years old, I have been raising concerns with the health visitor and the nursery regarding her speech for around a year and a half now. My daughter can say few worlds, I have taken her to the dentist and she has been found to have a lip tie. She has twice now had ulcers in her mouth, to the point she wouldn’t even take fluids and I had to syringe feed her water.
I have been told that a lip tie doesn’t affect speech, which is fair enough. However there has been no assessment done on my child, there have been two referrals gone to speech and language the first around 8 months ago, and it has not even been acknowledged.
Regardless of the reason my daughter has limited speech, she is still entitled to have an assessment and strategies provided to parents to assist her with her speech.
I was told that my daughter won’t be seen until she is three. I am having to pay privately to see a paediatrician in order for my daughter to be assessed.
I find it absolutely shocking that professionals without actually physically seeing a child can write them off by saying that a lip tie doesn’t affect speech.
"Daughter has very little speech"
About: Children's Specialist Health Services / Children's Speech & Language Therapy Children's Specialist Health Services Children's Speech & Language Therapy G67 1DZ
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Update posted by Donna457 (a parent/guardian) 11 months ago
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