Does your child have speech issues?

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My 8 year old sister's speech teacher have mention chewing gum (moving those mouth muscles) would help with her speech as well as not chewing food she has put on some weight. Well just now for discipline my parents yelled at her EAT GUM NOW or WRITE I LIKE GUM X amount of times. IMO UH the child DOESN'T LIKE GUM SHEESH! The child was crying/whine (a typical behavior for her not sure if that's a development 8 year old girl thing or something else) I went to my room but once again I couldn't believe how the situation was handled so I went to my room and a thought HIT ME! Perhaps start a diary of there parenting?? What do you think and if your child does have speech issues/chewing food issues how do you deal with that as a parent. (I'm the older sister looking at how my parents discipline and I disapprove but keep my opinion to myself now adays.)

During my son's occupational therapy sessions the therapist offered him gum. She told me later it helped him focus and also that she could understand him better. D. does not project his voice, he talks very very fast and he mumbles. I can't understand him unless he speaks slowly. This is ironic because I used to be the exact.same.way. So I guess there is benefit in the gum, but as your sister doesn't like gum maybe she could do something else to work her mouth muscles. Does she like to sing? There are some actors with incredible voices that overcame a bad stuttering problem in childhood. James Earl Jones for one. The voice for Darth Vader btw.

She sings but mumbles the words so we tell her to talk better constantly. Also the 10 year old at times says the singing is annoying her in the truck but we let the 8 year old keep singing since it'll help her speak better.

I was mute till about 6 years of age, and was taught to speak by singing with my dad, I am by know means a good singer, I still have
a bad time with elocution, some words just don't fit my mouth, I was also diagnosed with auditory processing disorder at the age of 9.

Yes that's how my dad did it with me, he's was a musician and would notice me trying to mimic sounds when he was on the trumpet, so he
tried singing nursery songs and some nonsense songs and it gradually turned into real speaking, my voice is very flat but at least I can hold
a conversation if I have too, my dad also had alot of aspergers traits and was a musical genius, I miss him

I had speech therepy as a youngster. I don't remember it very well.

I remember in my preschool days a tape that was given to me called "marvolous mouth music". There are things that you can get specifically for mouth movement. Singing is usually enjoyable and a good way to get kids to learn to move their mouth, project their voice and learn rythem. Also drinking through a straw, preferably something kind of thick like a shake or smoothie, so they have to really work to get the drink through. Blowing bubbles is also good, or blowing whistles. Blowing through straws in water is good also.

I didn't speak until I was four and for awhile anything I said I said it so fast it couldn't be understood. I was diagnosed with AS, not Autism.