In cross-sectional studies, children of different ages are tested on their abilities to produce speech sounds at a given point in time. Longitudinal studies.

The following chart shows acquisition of speech sounds based on the ages when 90% of English speaking children produce single sounds at the word level.

Children learn to produce different speech sounds at different ages. Below is a guide for when your child should be saying a range of different sounds.

Speech sound acquisition. In J. E. Bernthal, N. W. Bankson & P. Flipsen. Jnr ... This compilation of data on typical speech development for English speaking ...

SPEECH SOUND. Development. Average age that English-speaking children in the United. States acquire consonant speech sounds. 4-5 years. 6-7. 2-3 years. PBDMN.

Children start by using babbled sounds and then progress to using sounds in words, sentences and conversations. Children's use of speech sounds develops at ...

McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children's consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language.

This leaflet is about how children learn to say the different sounds that make up words. Speech sounds are either consonants, such as 'p' 'n' 'f', or vowels, ...

This chart shows acquisition of speech sounds based on the ages when 90% of English speaking children produce single sounds at the word level.

This chart outlines the sounds a child will be learning around certain ages, examples of words containing those sounds and the most common errors they make.