I have a new client who is 4 years old. I brought him from his class into the therapy room one day this week and started making my best efforts at making a session full of articulation practice fun ("Say the /k/ sound." Try again-use the back of your tongue. You said the /t/ sound. I want to hear the /k/ sound. Try again, please." On and on, the same sound, over and over again). He tried a few times, then decided to lie down on the mat. I said, "Naptime is all done. Why don't you want to get up and play with me?' He said "Du wame." I asked, "What did you say?" He said, "Dis du wame." Yes, according to my best clinical judgment, I'm pretty sure he told me my therapy was too lame!
Next day-same kid. He's also working on the /g/ sound. So as he drove a rocket around the table, occasionally crashing into a Tarzan doll, I modeled the word "Go!" Instead, he said "I tid him in da nuts." I'll let you translate that one.
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