• Articulation deals with the way a child pronounces individual sounds.

What causes an articulation problem?

• Articulation problems may result from physical handicaps, such as cerebral palsy, cleft palate or hearing loss, or may be related to other problems in the mouth, such as dental problems. However, most articulation problems occur in the absence of any obvious physical disability. The cause of these so-called functional articulation problems may be faulty learning of speech sounds.

Do children learn all sounds at once?

• a number of students enrolled in Preschool and Kindergarten have articulation errors that are developmental to their chronological age.

At what age should a child be producing all sounds correctly? 

• Children should make all the sounds of English by 8 years of age.  Many children learn these sounds much earlier.