SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS (Articulation, Phonology, CAS)

Speech development or production of sounds mostly occurs during the early stages of life (birth to 5 years of age). As the child starts hearing different speech sounds, they try to imitate the same while babbling or using first words and develop their own speech sound repertoire. Research suggests that children should have acquired most of the speech sounds by 6 – 7 years of age.

Unintelligible or unclear speech is very common in younger children as they are still learning the precise placement for all the sounds. According to research, speech of a 2-year-old is understood by strangers 50% of the time while speech of a 4-year-old is understood 90 – 100% of the time.

Speech sounds disorders are not very uncommon. Children from 3 years and above might have difficulty producing few or all the speech sounds. Depending on the type of errors and difficulty in motor movement which a child uses, they might have articulation disorder, phonological disorder or apraxia of speech.

• Does your child have difficulty producing one or few speech sounds?
• Does your child substitute or delete sounds in words?
• Does your child have unintelligible speech?
• Does your child lisp?
• Does your child have ear infection or glue ear?
• Does your child have a history of cleft lip and palate?
• Does your child have slurred speech?
• Does your child have difficulty saying words on demand but can say otherwise?

If your child is facing any of the above-mentioned problems, please contact us