Another update from last year ... in you recall, Sophie lost 4 teeth last Sept in an accident and there is still no sign of her adult teeth coming down. In fact she still hasn't lost any other teeth (naturally!) either. Kara had lost at least 6 or 7 by this age.
We are all so used to Sophie without her top front teeth that it will be odd seeing her eventually with them. But more than anything I am wanting to know whether her speech will differ when her teeth come through. Since she hasn't any teeth for her tongue to push against, she does have trouble pronouncing a lot of words.
Sophie so desperately wants to lose a tooth naturally ... one of her bottom teeth started wiggling loose 3 months ago and she was so excited. But the darn thing is still in there and even appears to be settling back in again! She still has her 3 month old note to the tooth fairy ... waiting, just waiting ...
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If Sophie is mispronouncing a lot of words at age 6, it never hurts to get an assessment by a professional speech pathologist. Getting an assessment doesn't commit you to speech therapy, it just lets you know whether the mispronounciations are developmentally typical or not. Ramona has spent a lot of time with a speech pathologist - her mispronounciations were developmentally typical but they were also two of the sounds in her first and last name !!! /r/ and /th/ - She'll be going back again soon as I've noticed some backsliding since we've moved. Here's the link to the website to find one near you. http://www.asha.org/proserv/
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