The Emergence of the Final Consonant S

DD talks a lot, but many people have difficult understanding her. It's because she makes many articulation errors that are normal for someone of her age. This means that she may leave out certain sounds in words when talking. For instance, she may pronounce the word "bread" as "bad" and the word "telephone" as "teh-phone".

The final 's' sound, i.e. the 's' sound that is at the end of a word, has been consistently omitted by DD as she cannot yet pronounce it when it's at the end of a word. For example, "bus" will become "ba", "nice" will be "ny" and "rose" will be pronounced "row".

But since Saturday, she has been able to pronounce her final consonant 's'! Yipee!!! :) This is very exciting for me as I have been awaiting the day that she can do this. OK, this is obviously a hazard due to my professional background, but almost everytime DD talks, my mind automatically compiles the errors that she makes and the sounds that she's able to produce. It used to be worse when I was in Uni. I used to phonetically transcribe people's speeches as they are talking.

Below is a video of DD taken a month back. That's where the kids do most of their reading (just kidding!!!). See if you can make out the story that she is reading. :) The book is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".