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Speech
A child’s speech is an important part of their development and it is vital for developing reading and spelling skills. Most children will be using a wide range of speech sounds by the time they are 5 years, but some children will have difficulty in developing these skills.
The areas of difficulties can be due to the following reasons:
·Muscles used to create different sounds. This can be due to muscle weakness and may be linked to difficulties like cerebral palsy.
·Sending messages from the brain to make different speech sounds. This may sometimes be described as 'dyspraxia'.
·Learning and using different sounds to make words. This can be called ‘phonological difficulties’.
A child may only make a small number of sounds, swap one sound for another e.g. saying 'tat' instead of 'cat', missing the ends off words or have difficulty with vowel sounds e.g. saying 'poor' instead of 'pear' or 'pot' instead of 'pat'.