Any SLPs? How soon can a child get help with articulation?

Question

My daughter is 2.5 and she has trouble pronouncing her r’s and s’s. She has a very advanced vocabulary for her age, but many have difficulty understanding her. I had speech therapy in elementary school for my r’s and hated every second of it. I was made fun of by other children and forced to put peanut butter on the roof of my mouth to try to pronounce correctly. I dreaded every lesson and I would love to try to intervene early for my daughter. I’m planning on homeschooling so she wouldn’t have the option of seeing a speech therapist in school. Any advice appreciated.
Edit to add: I am not homeschooling to avoid SLP for my child (I literally asked how soon I could get her help before becoming school aged) and the fact that anyone would assume from my post that this was my reasoning is just dumb. I brought up my own experience because it happened when I was age 7-8 and I don’t want to wait that long. I don’t need life lessons on homeschooling and what a commitment or a mistake it would be- I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ADVICE.

Answer

SLP here 🙂 
2.5 is very young for both of those sounds to develop. The best thing you can do as a parent is model good speech but don’t draw attention to errors at this age. Here’s a link to a chart with the typical development stages 
http://mommyspeechtherapy.com/wp-content/downloads/forms/sound_development_chart.pdf

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Now. My son started speech at 2.5 for articulation. Like your daughter his language and understanding is off the charts, but his articulation(speech) is his struggle.

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Homeschooling to avoid speech therapy and avoid help that will better her life, is a very poor choice. Don’t know how long ago you had peanut butter put in your mouth as a form of therapy, but that’s not how they don’t Hingis now.
Also , homeschooling is not as easy as you may think it is. In all reality, home schooling is a whole lot harder than your child going into speech therapy now, progress into a pre-K with an IEP and continue IEP as need it throughout grade school. Speech therapy methods have changed drastically and have improved exponentially.
Robbing your child from the benefits of seeing an SLP and having them better themselves with time,because YOU had a bad experience god knows how long ago, is literally projecting your own bad experience on your child and denying them something that will help them in the short and long run. You can’t project onto your kids, your own experiences, good or bad.. 
You need to do what’s best for them and starting with slp is just the first stage.
Homeschooling is a 100% commitment that not many can actually pull through and in this case it would put your child at a disadvantage since you would only be doing so, to keep child from getting proper help, because you had a bad experience.
Get your child all the help the state offeres and give them a chance to better themselves.
Get an slp, make the first steps and go through with it all. It will be rewarding in the end

Any SLPs? How soon can a child get help with articulation?

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