Speech Sounds
12 articles in this category
Supporting Your Child After a Tongue Tie Release: What Comes Next
After a tongue tie release: what recovery looks like, whether feeding improves, why speech won't fix itself and when a hearing or speech check is worth it.
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Tongue Tie in Children: Facts and Myths Every Parent Should Know
Tongue tie rarely affects speech, but it can affect feeding. What the rise in frenotomy means, who should assess, and what to ask before a release.
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Speech Sound Therapy: Assessment and What Helps
What happens in a speech sound assessment, how minimal pairs and phonological awareness work in therapy, and how to help at home without correcting.
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My 6-Year-Old Is Hard to Understand: Speech Delays
'Cat' as 'tat', 'rabbit' as 'wabbit': which patterns should be gone by six, why these are the hopeful kind, and when to book an assessment.
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Speech Sound Patterns in Bilingual Children
Accent, transfer and dominance effects are typical; errors that fit neither language or low intelligibility in both are not. How to tell them apart.
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Bilingual Children and Speech Sounds: What's Typical
An accent is not a speech disorder. How two sound systems develop side by side, what cross-linguistic transfer looks like, and when to get an assessment.
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Therapy for Childhood Apraxia: NDP3, ReST and DTTC
Therapy for inconsistent speech and childhood apraxia: why the two need different approaches, core vocabulary, and the motor programs NDP3, ReST and DTTC.
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Inconsistent Speech and Childhood Apraxia Explained
When a child says the same word three different ways: what inconsistent speech is, how it differs from childhood apraxia, and how assessment tells them apart.
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Therapy for Atypical Speech Sound Errors
Therapy for consistent atypical speech errors: contrast-based phonological therapy, why core vocabulary suits a different profile, and what to expect.
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Atypical Speech Sound Errors in Children Explained
Backing, dropped first sounds and favourite-sound substitutions: the speech errors that are not on any developmental timeline, and why they need targeted help.
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How Speech Sound Errors Affect Reading and Learning
A child who still says 'tat' for 'cat' may also struggle to spell it. Why speech sound errors show up in phonics, spelling and reading fluency.
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Phonological Speech Patterns vs Articulation Explained
Articulation or phonological? The two can sound alike at the kitchen table but call for different therapy. How to tell which one your child has.
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