Did he/she naturally outgrow them, or did your child eventually need speech therapy to develop proper pronunciation? If the latter, at what age did you first pursue help?
My son will be 2 next week. He is my third, and like my first two, he is quite good with language. He speaks long sentences, correctly pluralizes nouns and uses proper tenses for verbs most of the time. However, unlike my first two, he is unable to form many sounds at this time. He cannot say: c/k, f, hard g, h, l, s and probably a couple more. He substitutes a 't' sound for the k...so, "cake" is "tate," and his favorite animal is a "peatot." For both f and g sounds, he substitutes 'd.' He omits the 'h' at the beginning of words. And he talks incessantly! In our house, both siblings and both parents understand near 100% of what he says; we just substitute back what we know he means but can't pronounce. I think if he was less of a talker, I would actually be less concerned about the development of his speech. It just seems to me that with each passing day, the incorrect pronunciations are becoming more deeply ingrained and more of a habit, so that even once he can pronounce those sounds, we'll be stuck with a habit that's very hard to break.
Please share your experiences as well as your course of action and the result. This is new territory for me. Thanks!
My son will be 2 next week. He is my third, and like my first two, he is quite good with language. He speaks long sentences, correctly pluralizes nouns and uses proper tenses for verbs most of the time. However, unlike my first two, he is unable to form many sounds at this time. He cannot say: c/k, f, hard g, h, l, s and probably a couple more. He substitutes a 't' sound for the k...so, "cake" is "tate," and his favorite animal is a "peatot." For both f and g sounds, he substitutes 'd.' He omits the 'h' at the beginning of words. And he talks incessantly! In our house, both siblings and both parents understand near 100% of what he says; we just substitute back what we know he means but can't pronounce. I think if he was less of a talker, I would actually be less concerned about the development of his speech. It just seems to me that with each passing day, the incorrect pronunciations are becoming more deeply ingrained and more of a habit, so that even once he can pronounce those sounds, we'll be stuck with a habit that's very hard to break.
Please share your experiences as well as your course of action and the result. This is new territory for me. Thanks!
