How Can I Help My Child With Articulation? | Speech Therapy

1. How can I help my child with articulation? Your child has difficulty with pronouncing certain sounds. How do you find the balance as a parent of correcting them without it becoming too much? Should you just let it go? How much is too much? All of these are great questions to ask yourself if your child has difficulty with certain sounds. It can be a challenge to balance over-correcting with letting it go completely. One tip I like to give parents is to try

2. and keep your feedback positive and limit the negative language when addressing your child’s sounds. Here are some ways that you can address it at home while avoiding over-correction: Congratulate them when you hear a correct production. Make a big deal and celebrate that your child said their sound correctly—especially if it is during a casual conversation. Conversation is typically the last place we will target correct sound production. This is because it is complex and instead of focusing on a single word, we produce several words. Don’t be alarmed if you continue to hear errors in conversation after a few sessions of speech therapy. We work up to conversation and we may be targeting sounds just in single words. Read More