08/25/2022
When you have a child with a lot of speech sound errors that is difficult to understand, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to correct all of their errors all at once. But this will be overwhelming for your child, frustrating, and ineffective.
Instead, try choosing just ONE sound. Focus on that sound for a whole week, and then switch to a different sound if you want. And when trying to help your child with a sound, I would recommend:
1) Exaggerate that sound in your own speech for the whole week to help your child build awareness of the sound and see how it is produced
2) Repeat back your child’s words with the correct production, but DO NOT ask them to fix it. However, if they do fix it on their own, give them some praise!
