I'm a Nerd

Hello, my name is Kaylene and I am a speech pathologist nerd...

This morning as Tom was getting ready to head down to campus, I came over to him and said something along the lines of "As I was in the kitchen making your lunch, I asked Ann if she wanted her [sippy] cup and she whispered 'tup' as she took her cup.  It was so cute!  She's fronting!"  (To which Tom replied, "what's fronting?"  Fronting is a typical speech error that kids make when they are learning to talk.  It's when they use a sound made in the front of the mouth instead of one made in the back, i.e. /t/ for /k/ or /d/ for /g/)

There's also the "curse" of being an SLP...always noticing the speech errors of the little kids I come across.  This is especially noticeable in Fast and Testimony meeting in church, as our ward often has quite a few kids come up to share their testimonies.  I try to not pay attention to obvious speech errors and just listen to the sweet testimonies of these little kids (but it can be so distracting!)

I've noticed also when I'm reading books to Ann, I start thinking about the different kind of concepts the book is teaching, or if I were to use the book in therapy, what I would use the book to teach (it's amazing what one can think about as you are reciting a book for the 100th time...).  And I'm usually looking for concepts that might not be completely obvious, like counting or identifying objects.  Things like wh-questions, or emotions or categories or verbs.


(P.S.  Every time I read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" to Ann, when we get the black sheep, I always want to say "black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?"  Seriously.  Every.single.time)