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It provides practical caregiver guidance: realistic expectations, modeling instead of correction, supporting auditory discrimination, encouraging articulation and tongue strength activities, and using play to introduce sounds. 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The document also lists average ages for when many children can say specific sounds.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"How should parents respond when a child mispronounces a word?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"Instead of correcting pronunciation, model speech for the child. The document suggests repeating the target sound patterns and using phrases like “I like to hear you say …” rather than insisting on correction.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"Why is auditory discrimination important for learning a new sound?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"The document explains that children must distinguish one sound from another, including distinguishing it from the substitute sound they use. A speech therapist may teach this discrimination through games and activities before teaching the sound.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},418361,1790716557,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":41,"preview_page_count":4},7971461740909,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","# SPEECH DEVELOPMENT\n\nAll babies are born with the ability to make all sounds.The sounds they learn arethe sounds reinforced by the language they hear around them.There are about 43sounds in English,depending on accent.Speech sounds are acquired in apredictable developmental sequence.The following are the averages at whichsounds are developed.Sounds aren't considered late in developing until they aremore than 6months late in appearing.These are the ages by which about 90percent of children are able to say the following sounds.Sounds aren't consideredmastered until the child can use the sound at the beginning of a word,the end of aword and the middle of a word,which is also the developmental sequence of sounds.This is why the ages at which sounds are developed are typically are later than wethink,because the child is learning the sound in three ways.Also,using the age 3(orany other year)as a milestone means from 36 to 47months.So we don't expect tohit a milestone right on or by their birthday but during the months of that wholeyear.  \nBy 3 years:p,m,h,n,w,BBy 4 years:,k,g,d,t,y,ng,By 5 years:f,y,lBy 6 years:,r,s,ch,sh_By 7 years:z,j,v,th(unvoiced)  \nBy 8 years:th(voiced),zh(as theg sound in beige)blends (2or more consonants)st,str,cl,bl,gl,fr,dr,etc.  \nHaving this information will helpyou have realistic expectations for your child'sspeech.Never correct your child's pronunciation.  \nModel speech for your child.If your 4 year old child says\"fanks\"for\"thanks\"youcan say,\"I like to hear you say thththanks(draw out the “th”)or “thththanks forsaying thththanks\"  \nIf you tell this same child,\"Say thanks”they will likely say\"fanks”Since it isn'tdevelopmentally appropriate to expect the child to use the“th”sound they can't\"hear\"it or distinguish the difference between their pronunciation and yours.Thisis called auditory discrimination,which is distinguishing one sound from another.Discriminating the sound from other sounds (especially from a sound the child isusing instead of the correct sound)precedes the acquisition of the sound.In otherwords the child won't develop the sound if they can't distinguish it from the soundthey are using to substitute for the correct sound.A speech therapist willteachauditory discrimination through games and activities before teaching a sound.  \nAs in all things developmental,ifyou have a concern,rule out possible physicalcauses first,  \n*Check for muscle strength.If you are concerned about your child's speechdevelopment ask your child to copy you as you stick your tongue out,up,down andside to side.Make a game out of it.  \nYou can encourage muscle strength by\"making faces\"together in front of a mirror.This can also be a time to encourage new words by naming your faces.\"This is mysilly face.This is my surprised face”etc.Ice-cream cones are great training groundsfor teaching and encouraging licking and using our tongues.  \nEye contactis a very important component oflearning speech and language.90%of communication is non-verbal.Imagine that you only know 50 words in Frenchand while you are visiting your friend Marie in Paris she is talking to you while shehas her back to you as she is cooking and the radio is on,competing for yourattention.How much of what she is saying willyou be able to pick up?Thisillustrates how dfficult it is for young children who are new language learners tounderstand you without eye contact and attention  \nChildren learn best through play.Introduce sounds through play.A snake says,\"ssss\".A truck goes“rrr\",a train says \"chchch\"and a lion roars“grr”.〔Sounds arefirst taught by a therapist in isolation,by themselves,in front of a mirror,just FYI)  \nSpeech Development and ǐntelligence.  \nChildren who have all their speech sounds early sound intelligent and although theymay be,children who have delayed speech may be just as intelligent.Children tendto work on one developmental asset at a time.One child may be working on wordacquisition while another child may be working on gross motor 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The document also lists average ages for when many children can say specific sounds.\"},{\"question\":\"How should parents respond when a child mispronounces a word?\",\"answer\":\"Instead of correcting pronunciation, model speech for the child. The document suggests repeating the target sound patterns and using phrases like “I like to hear you say …” rather than insisting on correction.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is auditory discrimination important for learning a new sound?\",\"answer\":\"The document explains that children must distinguish one sound from another, including distinguishing it from the substitute sound they use. A speech therapist may teach this discrimination through games and activities before teaching the sound.\"}]","SPEECH DEVELOPMENT | PDF",1790612884]