My son has reasonably good speech but cannot say the 'k' sound

susanb
susanb Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
edited July 2024 in Talk about your impairment
This discussion was created from comments split from: I'm Chris, I specialise in working with children with autism, asperger's and learning disabilities.

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  • susanb
    susanb Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
    Hi Chris, my son is 14 and has a chromosome disorder called 4p minus. He has reasonably good speech but cannot say the 'k' sound. It comes out as 't'. SALT have all but given up on him, but being stubborn I feel there must be something I can try to help him. Thank you. S
  • LondonSpeechTherapy
    LondonSpeechTherapy Online Community Member Posts: 59 Connected
    Dear susanb,

    Thank you for your question.

    I am not familiar with the disorder that your son has and the impact on speech sounds. May I ask whether he replaces the sound in all positions in a word (begnning, middle, end) and if he can produce it in isolation (i.e. not in a word, just by itself)? This process is referred to as 'backing' and i am wondering whether he also does it with "g" to "d"?

    Chris

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