Why does my child add extra syllables to words?

[DustyGlow]

DS is 7. He adds extra syllables to many words. Anything with a y sound on the end gets an ‘uh’ sound added e.g. mummy-uh.
Other examples are things like pool is poo-a-luh, home is ho-wuh-muh.
I would have thought he might have outgrown it by now.
Does anyone know why?

Anyone?

From experience with SaLT in school its pretty normal developmentally throughout toddlerhood, but at 7, I'd possibly suggest contacting your dr or schools senco for a referral to a speech therapist?

V. interesting. How is he at reading? Maybe this is related to seeing all the letters and wanting to pronounce the 'silent' ones?

Can he pronounce each sound individually or does he add a schwa? So la instead of l. Da instead of d. If he can do it individually it's more a habit he has picked up rather than a speech difficulty.

We have had SALT involvement for stuttering the end sound of words and for a lisp but he would do what he’s asked of in the session and not really talk naturally to them so it wasn’t ever picked up on. It was seeing relatives who commented on it this Christmas that made me think.

He can repeat words correctly without if we model them but with salt sessions for the lisp they very much said ‘if it doesn’t bother him, don’t fix it’ before discharging which I slightly disagree with.

He’s an excellent reader, a pattern spotter, it wouldn’t surprise me if he saw the words in his mind as he spoke!!

Ask to be referred back but do some videos of it happening

What region are you? Is he unintentionally mimicing a friend/friends at school. I find that mine would pick up some subtle habits of his besties at the same age (including a tic at one point). My daughter also occasionally speaks in a twang that she can only have heard on YouTube.

This is very common in parts of the city I live in, like a dialect/accent which some people speak with. For instance some people say ‘and’ with three syllables - a-nu-da.

My child repeated the end sounds of words or sentences like this. It was a speech disfluency or type of stammer. He saw a speech therapist for almost three years and only really does it when very tired now.

It’s probably just dialect. It’s like when English people put an R in everything.

My son, who is dyspraxic, did the end of the word stutter when he was young ( probably up to about 10) and the SALT said it was a type of disfluency. He’s 24 now and doesn’t do it any more. His friend who has Asperger’s ( was diagnosed when it was still used as a label) has always put an extra syllable on the ends of words, though he’s a brilliant actor and doesn’t do it when he’s acting.