3-and-a-half-year-old's speech

[Bellabelloo]

My little boy is 4 in March and his speech is not as good as his peer's. I can completely understand what he's saying, but their are letters and sounds he can't say - 's' and 'th' and 'z' and 'y'.

He's had a hearing test (which was fine) and now I'm trying to sort out some speech therapy.

Has anyone else had experience of this? And how quickly did they improve?

Thank you.

My DN was very late on speech. We could understand her but other people couldn't. She started school in September and her speech has really come along nicely. It's got very clear.

@EatTheHamTina That's good to hear. I hope she's loving school. I think he's come on in leaps and bounds in the past 4 months but nursery are referring him. X

[quote Bellabelloo]@EatTheHamTina That's good to hear. I hope she's loving school. I think he's come on in leaps and bounds in the past 4 months but nursery are referring him. X[/quote]
That's good. Sorry forgot to add that nursery did refer her too. The nursery wasn't brilliant though in all honesty!

I guess it depends how affected he is. Hard to tell from your post
Sometimes it was hard to tell what my child was saying and you had to ask her to repeat it quite a lot and even then you couldn't understand. But it wasn't all words so it was only in the middle of year one that the school referred her to SLT. But basically as she got older right she very slowly got better and I realise now it's because of learning phonics at school. I've realised she really pronounces the sounds (more than a normal adult would) because of learning how to read. Ironically when SLT had a space for her she didn't need it anymore she'd improved so much.
It's just another viewpoint.