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Our boys were 3.5 and 4.5 when we came home
two years ago and putting them in preschool was great for their language development. I was also sure that they would need speech therapy and we had them go to the local elementary school and the testing was quite extensive i thought (about 4 hours for each child)
our youngest son in particular had some pronounciation problems but they said that there were a lot of sounds that kids cant even make until they are a certain age.. they did give us some tips though about the "th" sound and told him to pretend that his tongue was a dog and that his teeth were a fence and to not let the dog out of the fence to help with the "th" sound.
They also said that several (i cant think of them right now) sounds kids werent expected to learn until they were 7 or so... who knew?
good luck!
alli
ps i wrote all of this to say that really, preschool forced them to have to learn english and how to communicate so it was good for us.
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