“What can I do to get rid of frontal lisp?”
I always had a frontal lisp, since I was a kid actually. But my parents never did anything about it. I would like to try and get rid of it. Is there anything I can do to get rid of my lisp?
9 Answers
Good afternoon! Working with a licensed and certified Speech Language Pathologist can help you to correct your lisp. It will require a lot of work on your part, but if you are motivated, a good SLP can teach you strategies and provide you with materials to help improve your articulation.
Lisp are typically related to myofunctional disorders. I would recommend seeking out a speech pathologist who specializes in myofunctional disorders.
Make an appointment with a speech pathologist
A speech therapist can help you work on tongue placement strategies.
Thank you for your question; it's a good one!
Frontal lisps are often a side effect of an individual's swallowing pattern. It would be ideal to seek out an assessment with a SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) trained in orofacial myofunctional therapy or oral facial myology to assess speech and swallow. From there, and individualized plan of care can be recommended to support you in correcting the muscle
function pattern. At our facility, all clinicians on the team are speech pathologists and trained orofacial myology practitioners.
Thank you and kind regards,
Frontal lisps are often a side effect of an individual's swallowing pattern. It would be ideal to seek out an assessment with a SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) trained in orofacial myofunctional therapy or oral facial myology to assess speech and swallow. From there, and individualized plan of care can be recommended to support you in correcting the muscle
function pattern. At our facility, all clinicians on the team are speech pathologists and trained orofacial myology practitioners.
Thank you and kind regards,
A speech-language pathologist can help give you strategies to retrain the tongue (which is a muscle) in order to help reduce the frontal lisp.
You can always seek out a local speech therapist but here are some tips:
Practice. Practice. Practice!
The correct way to produce the /s, z/ sounds (which i'm assuming is when your lisp is taking place) is to:
bite back teeth together, smile, keep tongue behind teeth, raise mid tongue slightly up to roof of your mouth (sides of tongue should be touching back teeth), push air out of the front of your mouth.
You can practice in front of a mirror to make sure your getting it right. Practice in words first (at the beginning 'sam', middle 'massive', and end 'bass'), then short phrases, longer sentences, and then conversation. It will take time to break that habit but you will get it.
If still having difficulty it may be due to dentition (over or under bite).
Practice. Practice. Practice!
The correct way to produce the /s, z/ sounds (which i'm assuming is when your lisp is taking place) is to:
bite back teeth together, smile, keep tongue behind teeth, raise mid tongue slightly up to roof of your mouth (sides of tongue should be touching back teeth), push air out of the front of your mouth.
You can practice in front of a mirror to make sure your getting it right. Practice in words first (at the beginning 'sam', middle 'massive', and end 'bass'), then short phrases, longer sentences, and then conversation. It will take time to break that habit but you will get it.
If still having difficulty it may be due to dentition (over or under bite).
Terlenda Lassiter
Speech-Language Pathologist
Of course! Frontal and lateral lisp is not developmentally normal. You can always work on it at your leisure. Please feel free to check out youtube videos of Pam Marshalla discussing strategies for frontal lisp. That's the most cost effective way to start learning about strategies. Next, would be to invest in an evaluation by your local medical SLP. Make sure you find a speech language pathologist who has experience working on lisp and articulation.
Karen Young
Jupiter, FL
Hi. Focus on keeping your tongue behind your top teeth when producing "s" sounds, and closing your bite a bit more.
This may initially be tricky, especially when the "s" is in the medial position of a word, for example " baSeball", or when there is a blend, for example "laSt".
With practice, you can achieve this over time. If you want to try articulation therapy, you can locate a Speech Pathologist close to you by visiting ASHA.org.
Best of luck.
Karen Young, MS, CCC-SLP
This may initially be tricky, especially when the "s" is in the medial position of a word, for example " baSeball", or when there is a blend, for example "laSt".
With practice, you can achieve this over time. If you want to try articulation therapy, you can locate a Speech Pathologist close to you by visiting ASHA.org.
Best of luck.
Karen Young, MS, CCC-SLP
