Speech Sounds

If you feel your child has difficulties with their speech sounds you may find the below information useful. Perhaps you or others find your child tricky to understand sometimes, you feel your child has difficulties pronouncing one or a few specific sounds or you might just be wondering about the order that sounds develop.

Helpful Information:

• Speech sound development - ages and stages
• Sound awareness activities
• What to do if you don't understand what your child is saying
• Top tips for helping your child with speech sounds
• Steps to learn a sound - listening
• Steps to learn a sound - talking

Useful Videos:

• Listening and discriminating between speech sounds
• Practising speech sounds - blending silly words (consonant + vowel, vowel + consonant)
• Games to play when practising speech sounds