What Is Backing? Backing disorder is a communication phenomenon in which speech sounds that should be made at the front of the mouth are made at the back of the mouth instead. Such a disorder might have physiological basis or might simply be specific to the individual. Speech therapy and exercises can help correct or lessen the impact of a
Speech development in children varies greatly from age to age. Children learn sounds by listening to people speaking around them. They have been tuning into the sounds around them since before they were born and they carry on developing their ability to tune into environmental sounds and speech sounds. Babies begin by playing with sounds first of all, then babble. This babble
Many parents contact me as they are worried about that their child’s speech is not easy to understand. Many children go through a phase of substituting sounds and then they gradually learn to use the correct sound in the correct place. However, there is a large number of children that continue to struggle with sound productions in many position of
