Your child should be clear by around 4 years of age. Most of the people around him should be able to understand him. If you see your extended family or neighbors constantly asking your child to repeat what he just said, it means that he has a speech disorder. The nature of the speech disorder might be because of the fact that he has some difficulty in his oral structures or because he doesn’t know the rules of the language. This would be diagnosed by the Speech Language Pathologist and then she would decide what is the nature of the intervention to be taken up. Usually a child is called in for speech therapy and the sound is taught through various play methods and in a fun way so that the child doesn’t realize that he is actually learning a sound. Rather it is more like playing. We have our own techniques of teaching the child, using the mirror, different instruments, toys, board games and so on. So if your child has a speech disorder, it is best to consult a Speech Language Pathologist at the earliest.

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