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Posted: Sept 28 2009 at 5:05am | IP Logged Quote mayappleridge
My almost 8 year old has some mild speech articulation disorders and auditory processing issues. He also has some learning disability (in the process of finding testing for him).

Anyway, we are Americans who live in Wales. Before I go any further, let me just say that I love British accents. I find the British way of saying and phrasing things to be captivatingly beautiful.

My son speaks with an obvious American accent. We haven't even been here a year yet. We all do phrase some things in a British way, but it is obvious that we are Americans (even my three year old has a mixed accent). Lately my son has been sort of faking a British accent. But in doing this, he is almost faking articulation errors. For example, he says the word conker as cahn kah. Lately I've been pretending not to understand him when he makes these "errors". (It's what his ST in America recommended for his natural articulation errors and I think it helped.) I just pretend I don't understand until he speaks in his normal voice.

Is this something I should be worried about? Is he not adjusting well? He says he prefers it here to America and wants to stay when our ex-pat assignment is up.

Help!

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