Articulation in your three year old

kellyjojo · March 2013

How clearly can you understand your three year old? I can understand my son, but there are some words where he replaces certain sounds with easier sounds. EExample - he will say "ock" instead of "off". "Res" instead of "yes". He can say the letter "Y" when he says "yellow", but "yes" is hard. It is a hit or miss on what sounds he can say. He is currently in speach therapy, but I am curious. He will be three on Apr 28th. He is on point with language, but behind in articulation.

Cherryblossoms07 · March 2013

My daughter is in speech therapy for articulation and your son sounds a lot like mine. She has the beginning of words down well for the most part (gutteral sounds - c,g,k, and q are still very difficult) but she has a tendency to either leave off the ending part of 2 or more syllable words or make the ending totally different (home = ho, tea = treat,...) Her therapist is working with her on that now.

kellyjojo · March 2013

cherryblossoms07 - has your daughters hearing been checked? seems my son has mild high frequency loss. how old is your daughter? i am trying to see how far off we are.

Cherryblossoms07 · March 2013

Yes, she had her hearing checked about a month ago. Her hearing is perfect. DD is 3 years, 2 months. There is a family history of speech delay on DH's side so I am not too concerned about her articulation being behind, especially since DH and all his siblings and father are engineers and doctors.

bakerlm · March 2013

My ds will be 3 on April 20! My ds seems to do it some as well but just with the "p" sound. He replaces it with a "c" sound. For example, "pajamas" becomes "cajamas." "Potatoes" become "comatoes." Since all of his other language is normal, I'm not too concerned because he will probably grow out of it. I try to continue working on that sound though and will be having it checked if it is still going on by age 4.

kellyjojo · March 2013

cherryblossom- that def gives me some comfort. In my heart I believe he will grow out of it, but these damn doctors get in your head. Thx!!

kcisthebombdotcom · March 2013

my son also has an artic delay and sounds exactly like your child. he struggles with sounds in first position although he usually gets them in middle/last position.

there's a huge variance when sounds develop in kids. this chart may be helpful for you. it's not uncommon for y/f sounds to be poorly developed for a 2.5 year old.

https://www.bisd.us/sharp/English_Developmental_Sound_Chart%5B1%5D.pdf

meganandchase · March 2013

bakerlm:
My ds will be 3 on April 20! My ds seems to do it some as well but just with the "p" sound. He replaces it with a "c" sound. For example, "pajamas" becomes "cajamas." "Potatoes" become "comatoes." Since all of his other language is normal, I'm not too concerned because he will probably grow out of it. I try to continue working on that sound though and will be having it checked if it is still going on by age 4.

This made me laugh because we had the opposite problem. DS replaced C with P. We felt bad for his friend Cooper. He grew out of it though. I think the OP's son is pretty normal. It seems like all kids have one or two sounds they have difficulty with. DS is almost three. Every once in a while, I still have to translate toddler-to-English, but it's become much less frequent.

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