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Articulation Skills

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Articulation Skills

Articulation Disorders

Many young children have difficulty pronouncing words (called an articulation disorder). Your child may drop off sounds from their words (“at” for ‘cat”) or shorten a long word (“uter” for “computer), which may make it hard for people outside the family to understand his or her speech.

Some articulation errors that your child makes are called developmental errors, since they may not have acquired the ability to make a certain speech sounds because of their age. One example f this is making a “w” sound for an “r” sound (e.g., “wabbit” for “rabbit”) or dropping the “l” sound (“yewow” for “yellow”).

An evaluation by a speech-language pathologist is recommended if these errors continue past the expected ag (see chart below for ages speech sounds typically develop).

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