Frequently Asked Questions: This page contains answers to common questions 
of students and parents.Please e-mail me with any questions you would like 
me to add to this website.

1. How long will it take before my child corrects their speech sound in therapy?

How long will it take before my child corrects their speech sound in therapy?

Mastery at the conversational level varies with each child. To correct an 
individual speech sound, a child will need to go through the following 
hierarchy of speech sound development: Auditory discrimination of the 
individual sound from other sounds; Production in isolation; Production at 
the syllable level; Production at the word level including the initial, 
final and medial positions of words; Production of the sound within 
Phrases/Sentences; Production of the speech sound in guarded conversational 
speech; and Production of the speech sound in conversational speech at an 
automatic level which will result in final carryover of the sound. This may 
take as early as four months with an older child to two years with a younger 
child just to correct one sound in their speech repetoire.

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