How clear is your 3 year old's speech?

[2pt4kids]

DS1 is 3.4 years. He knows loads of words and is learning new words and making new sentences all the time. He understands everything and is pretty clever at making himself understood but his speech is stll very unclear.

I'm the only one who can understand everything he says and I often have to 'translate' to people who dont know him. Even DH and his Grandparents cant understand everything he says. I think I only understand everything as I'm with him all the time and so I can put it in context much more easily.

Most words he says he begins with 'b' or 'd' still. For example if he says 'bee' it could be 'three' 'bee' 'tree' etc if he wanted to say 'see' he'd say 'dee'
I know he can do the 'ssss' noise cos he can do it when pretending to be a snake but he just cant put it into a word (we've tried to do it slowly!)

Is this still all normal for his age do you think? Or worth asking HV about?

How clear are all your 3 years olds speech?

Ds1 is 2.8, has very unclear speech, doesn't yet put sentences together, has just been referred for SALT.

Hmm, my ds1 is similar to the OP's. He is 3.6 and speaks in sentences, but is not always clear in his speech. He can't say "th" (not unusual at that age)but tends to use "b" instead "bese ones" for "these ones" so that makes it a little difficult to follow. He also can't say "sh" or "ch" but can say "s" ok. Today at nursery he wanted to tell his teacher "I did a wee all by myself" but she couldn't understand him and I had to translate. I have his parent's evening tonight and intend to ask what they think about his language. I'm not too worried myself but if there is a problem I'd rather deal with it now instead of later.

I’d love to know how your son’s speech is now? My 3 year old sounds very similar to your
Son at that age