Speech defects in the local private schools(they are all parochial) are taken care of by the teachers who tell the parents that the lisp needs to be fixed and here is a list of (private) therapists. A friend's little boy had an overlarge tongue and attendant speech and drool problems that mama had just lived with. She didn't even notice the speech problems because she had come to talk to him with the same "accent." The teacher told her he would have to get therapy or he would never graduate first grade. She took the boy for two therapy sessions which distressed him mightily. He asked mama how he could avoid going back. She told him he had to learn to talk as other children talk. He went into intensive self therapy, listening to a child's record that his dad said was in good English, and practicing controlling his tongue in front of a mirror. NASA noticed the boy in high school and paid for his undergraduate years at the university. They hired him then and expedited his progress to his doctorate in physics. Now they are putting him through for a second doctorate. His parents are high IQ but nothing approaching their son.
Good story.
Interesting story. A blessing for those of us who went through speech therapy!
Although, I’m not as good as I ought to be, people usually pick up on it when they are in the know.