How can you tell if my child has problem with articulation (pronunciation and talking)?
If a child has difficulties with articulation they might:
- Become overly frustrated when communicating with others.
- Produce speech that is difficult to understand even for familiar listeners.
- Have difficulty linking together more than one or two sounds.
- Tend to use only vowel sounds (very open mouthed noises).
- Produce speech that is unclear alongside dribbling and messy eating skills.
- Produces speech that is less clear than other children of the same age.
- Produce an interdental lisp (e.g. tongue protruding between the teeth when saying a /s/ or /z/ sound) if over the ages of 3.5 – 4 years.
- Be school aged and still having difficulty saying several sounds.
