Can your child say "shhhh" and "ch"?

[hannahsaunt]

Ds2 - a delightful 3yo with v good speech and vocabulary can't say 'sh' or 'ch'. Is this normal? He has an Adam Clayton-esque lisp which adds to his natural charm but I'm wondering if this adds to the inability to make a 'sh' sound. Words like 'lunch' or 'finished' sort of come out of his nose (quite a hard sound to describe - something akin to make a pig-like snort from nose and back of throat - between that a the Scottish 'ch' sound at the end of 'loch'). No real desire to send him off to a speech therapist but wondered if we leave it too late is he going to curse us as an adult with a weird (rather than endearing) way of saying things?

My DS1 is just 4 has has the same problem. He had an appointment with the speech therapist this week who said that those sounds are the last ones to come and not to worry about it. HTH

He has real problesm saying "J" at the beginning of words too so you really have to know what he's talking about to understand him - don't know what his friends Gack, Gone, Games, Gay, Gosh and Gacob think of it though

My 20 month old can say sh but my 5 yo ds can't. He can't say J either so similar to Tommy's ds.
Ds was under a speech therapist for a while who was perfectly happy that he was progressing and signed him off.

Both the 3 year old twins I look after can say 'sh' but 's' comes out sh, so sit comes out as sh1t!! fine at home but not so great on a bus full of people!

Good! It's just one of those niggly things that you're not quite sure whether it's absolutely fine and will come in due course or whether you should actually be doing something about it. Will just sit back and enjoy his lovely way of speaking.

definitely normal