I really like the bird metaphor a lot. It's sweet and is precisely the sort of comparison/explanation she'll understand and enjoy.

Are you and her mom making sure you're breaking down the syllables of troublesome words and practicing them with her? That extra reinforcement will help what she's working on in speech therapy, and if you incorporate that, say, as part of the process of your reading together, she'll just interpret that as quality time with you guys, which she'll love on lots of levels. I had some trouble with saying words correctly when I was small. It's a very common problem and one they usually grow out of. There were some speech pathologists at my school who helped a time or two, and then my dad, who's a linguistics professor, decided he could do a better job and he apparently did because the problem resolved itself.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Need a little advice i have a 6 year old girl and she has had speech problems ever since she could talk but now she is getting old enough to notice that she dosent say words right like top is dop and thats one of the easy ones other than that she is perfectly normal but the other day she was doin home work and was having problems with her spelling words and she started crying and then she said "i cant say words right and i dont know why i try but i cant say them" and she was so upset i felt so bad but theres Rating: 5