At Parent Evening last month the teacher recommended my son (born June 2009 and started Reception this September) requires a speech therapist as he can't pronounce some words. I asked if this was unusual and she replied that yes, they expect all 4 year olds to be able to enunciate everything clearly by this age. He has been banded with the children who do not have English as a first language because of it.
When I got home, it occurred to me that some of his classmates will have only just turned 4 and some have been 4 for longer than him, so surely his speech development can't be generalised?
He says things like 'trink'' instead of 'pink' and 'choffee chop' instead of coffee shop. He's fine in all other developmental areas.
He's my youngest and last baby so I've probably 'babied' his funny words too long, but is speech therapy really neccessary at this age do you think?
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Do all 4 year olds enunciate correctly? Mine is recommend speech therapy :/
sharesinNivea · 05/11/2013 00:39
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