Is Your Child’s Speech on Track? A Dive Into The New Speech Sound Guidelines 

As parents, we always want the best for our kids, and one question often keeps parents up at night:"Is it normal that I can’t understand what my child is saying?"

For a long time, the "wait and see" approach was common. Many were told that sounds like "R," "L," and "S" didn't need to be perfect until age 7 or 8.

However, a landmark study by Crowe and McLeod (2020), published by the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (ASHA), has changed the game. It turns out, children are mastering speech sounds much earlier than we thought!