4YR old sounds 'W' instead of 'R' - Should i be doing anything about it?

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My ds says 'w' instead of 'r' like wed instead of red, he does it on all words, the same as Johnathon Ross.

Should i be worried or be doing anything to stop it/change it?

Advice please.

I am like that sometimes Doubt it is anything to worry about though.

My daughter did this at that age. She's ten now and W still occasionally slips in but didn't stop her reading/writing skills. I wouldn't worry.

My dd did exactly this! She is 7 now and still does it very occasionally but just grew out of it.

We did spend an extended i-spy once as she was thinking of 'woof' instead of 'roof'!!

I'm a salt. Leave it.Nothing to worry about.

Ds2 is 5 and does this as do a number of his freinds. think it is nothing to worry about.

Ds2 is 5 and does this as do a number of his freinds. think it is nothing to worry about.

th-f confusion is in the same category, isn't it?

moondog - when does it become something to worry about?

I never learnt how to pronounce 'r' despite years of speech therapy. I'm amazed at how beautifully my children at age 3 and 4 can already roll their 'r's.

My daughter is just getting to grips with reading and she now knows that 'th' is th and not f and that it's rabbit not wabbit. It's like the penny drops when she's seeing it and not just hearing what she thinks is it. There aren't many children who are physiologically incapable of sounding these words correctly, it's simply a matter of knowing it. Don't rush it and she'll most likely work it out for herself.

It's never a problem if people understand what you are saying.

that's just it moondog, it's fine when I speak english, but in flemish you have to be able to pronounce 'r'. I really wish my parents hadn't given me a name with an r in it!

Thank you everyone.

DS2 did this. In fact he still does, he's nearly 8. He finally for a speech therapy referral last year (or early this year, can't remember) and they claimed there wasn't a problem .

Christmas,resources are limited.It is no longer possible to justify the use of an expensive and scarce resource like salt on such a trivial problem which could easily be remedided at home with some practice (a salt could have given you a lot of exercise ideas to take home.

That's interesting moondog. I didn't just have speech therapy for 'r' pronunciation, I had speech therapy because no one could understand anything I said when I was 5/6/7 years old.

That's fair enough obviously.
It is really important though that people no longer see salt as some sort of elocution.

It detracts time and expertise away from the many children and adults who have severe communication problems.

My DS age 4 also says W for R and my friend who is a speech therapist says not to worry as this is one of the last sounds they learn to pronounce properly so is quite common.

I can now tell which words my DD age 2 is learning from her big bro, as she pronounces them the same way he does!