speech dyselxia?

Question

My 3 year old son says things in reverse order,for example goosebumps would be bumps-goose,is this normal?

Answer 1

its just a phase. its prolly kind of cute. if youre worried, talk to a preschool teacher or his pediatrician. thats all. no worries. maybe its actually a good thing. like a smart factor...

Answer 2

I wouldn't call it "normal" but he is 3 years old. My advice would be to correct him EVERY TIME he rearranges words like this. Being that he is only 3, he has some time to re-learn and you have some time to help him. Speak to your pediatrician at your next visit, but don't worry about it too much. If the problem persists, look into putting him into a head start program (when you can) or to see a speech-language pathologist (which I wouldn't recommend this early). Children are to obtain 90% accuracy in speech by the time they are 4 or 5 years old.

Answer 3

I have NEVER, in 20 years of pracice, encouraged a parent to correct a child's speech without specific recommendations from me. Parents are NOT therapists, and do not have the specific skills or knowledge to direct the progression of therapy.
Speech pathologists have a master's degree for a reason; correcting a child's speech is a complex activity in spite of looking quite simple.
Your child's reversal of the elements of compound words is a normal stage in language development. These reversals are called "spoonerisms", named after Spooner, who did the original research on the phenomenon. All of us commit spoonerisms at times.
Don't correct the child; just casually repeat his sentence right way without making a big deal about it. He will hear the correct sequence and self-correct eventually.

Answer 4

I wouldn't think it's a problem since he's only 3. My little brother would do this as well when he was that age, even mixing up the first few letters of words.

We would call him a "naked jaybird" when he got out of the bathtub (no idea where this came about), and one day he ran through the house and said "I'm a Jaked Naybird, jaked naybird!" He had no idea he was saying it wrong. For some reason he would do that from time to time, but it all worked itself out. Plus it was rather funny!

Answer 5

Sit down with the child and get pictures of different things tell him to fallow what you are saying if he says it wrong then tell keep teaching him that word until he finally gets it right. My son does the same thing and I pull up pictures and then after going over it with him a couple times he gets it right. If that does not work speak with your child's doctor on somethings you could do to help him understand the correct words. Hope I helped you.

Answer 6

Totally normal. He's just processing all the new words he's learning and his thoughts are getting ahead of his ability to express it. My cousin, who loved big equipment at that age, loved to point out "groadraders." And my daughter wanted to be a musician and play the "targuit"!