Saturday, April 10, 2021 |

Speech
Speech is one of the ways we express our language. Speech considers the complex physical act of oral sound production and involves clarity and fluency.
Speech skills develop over time. It takes time for movements of the tongue, lips, jaw, larynx and soft palate to become coordinated. Speech skills begin to develop in the first months of life with cooing sounds and progress to complicated babbling by the end of the first year. Some sounds are mastered early on (like "b", "m", and "d"), while others may take years to perfect (like "ch", "r", and "th").
Caregivers can help a child's speech skills develop by modelling correct production of sounds and by exaggerating the sounds the child is mispronouncing.