So. Completely out of the blue, a friend of mine has raised concerns about DD's speech. She took DD to a party today and dropped her back, then messages me later to say she had something for me that she wanted to discuss and could she come down when the kids were settled? (Lives down the street)

She explained that at the party she noticed that DD didn't have a few speech sounds that you'd expect a 5yo to have - l, r, ch, sh. She suggested we get DD checked by the school speech pathologist.

I should add - she is a speech pathologist herself, not paeds, but qualified to make a suggestion. She also felt really awkward about it all so I don't have a problem with how she's handled it all.

I am just a bit shocked. I haven't noticed anything. Feeling a bit like crummy mummy.

So where do I go from here? If I don't/can't see the school speech pathologist, how do I book into our privately? Just ring up??