
What Speech Errors are Never Age Appropriate?
Speech sounds develop slowly, as a child’s ability to coordinate and produce sounds develop. Because of this, there are often a lot of errors that are age appropriate for little ones and no cause for concern (check out our handy guide to speech sound development). There are, however, some speech errors that do not occur at any stage in typical speech sound development, and are red flags for a more serious speech disorder. In general, we don’t begin treating a child for speech difficulties until they are at least three years of age. Children under three are still in the early stages of learning to communicate, and the sounds they can and can’t use at this age can be pretty all over the place. Once a child turns three, however,…