Common Speech Issues

About Phonological Disorders

We often listen to children talking and most of the time we can understand them.

However, some children can be difficult to understand. Why is that? All children have a typical pattern of speech sound errors which they develop at certain ages, these are called phonological processes.

A phonological disorder occurs when phonological processes continue beyond the age when typically developing children are no longer using them, or when some processes are different than what would be expected.

Some common examples are listed below.

PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES CHART

  • PHONOLOGICAL PROCESS
  • Backing
  • Initial consonant deletion
  • Context sensitive voicing
  • Word final devoicing
  • Stopping /f/
  • Stopping /s/
  • Final consonant deletion
  • Stopping /v/
  • Stopping /z/
  • Fronting
  • Consonant harmony
  • Cluster reduction
  • Weak syllable deletion
  • Stopping ‘sh’
  • Stopping ‘j’
  • Stopping ‘ch’
  • Stopping voiceless ‘th’
  • Stopping voiced ‘th’
  • Gliding
  • EXAMPLE
  • ‘dog’ is pronounced as ‘gog’
  • ‘bed’ is pronounced as ‘ed’
  • ‘pea’ is pronounced as ‘bee’
  • ‘hug’ is pronounced as ‘huk’
  • ‘fish’ is pronounced as ‘bish’
  • ‘soap’ is pronounced as ‘doap’
  • ‘fish’ is pronounced as ‘fi’
  • ‘van’ is pronounced as ‘ban’
  • ‘zoo’ is pronounced as ‘doo’
  • ‘cat’ is pronounced as ‘tat’
  • ‘dog’ is pronounced as ‘gog’
  • ‘spoon’ is pronounced as ‘poon’
  • ‘elephant’ is pronounced as ‘efant’
  • ‘shop’ is pronounced as ‘dop’
  • ‘jump’ is pronounced as ‘dumpt’
  • ‘chair’ is pronounced as ‘tare’
  • ‘thing’ is pronounced as ‘ting’
  • ‘them’ is pronounced as ‘dem’
  • ‘red’ is pronounced as ‘wed’
  • GONE BY APPROXIMATELY
  • Severe phonological delay
  • Severe phonological delay
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