pronunciation problems

[jenninapaz]

My kindergarten student pronounces c as t (ex. cat-tat and cake-take) he also pronounces g as d (ex. game-dame, gap-dap) I really want to help him overcome this. Please give me some tips on how to help him.
Thanks

[Michael Levin MD]

It is not rare for young children to have difficulties with the consonants. Their auditory discrimination system is not well developed and they may not be able to tell the difference between similar sounds (“t” and “d” , “ch” and “j”, “ch” and “sh” ). Sometimes, several consonants “blend together” into one grunt-like sound. The auditory discrimination problem does not affect spoken words perception to the same degree as separate sounds because the words come in larger chunks (less confusion) and can be “error-corrected” by context.

Individual sounds, on the other hand, in reading decoding and spelling are in isolation. If not distinctly perceived, these consonants are confused with the similarly sounding letters and mistakes are made.

In addition, young children with auditory discrimination delay might have difficulties with visual discrimination. In latter case similarly looking written letters would be confused.

It is important to recognize that majority of children with auditory and visual discrimination problems grow out of them and get much better with time. Structured reading exercises and repetition help, although do not cure, this temporary developmental deficiency.

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