My 5-year-old child can't speak clearly. What's wrong?

If a five-year-old child still cannot speak clearly, this problem needs attention, because children's language abilities will be different at each stage of their growth. We need to pay attention to whether it is caused by individual factors, inaccurate pronunciation or groups of phonemes. Also, if the child is born with cleft palate, hearing impairment, neurological disease, or intellectual development disorder, he or she may not be able to speak or speak unclearly.

1. Some phonemes are not pronounced correctly

In fact, every language has dozens of basic phonetic units, corresponding to the most basic pronunciation movements. This most basic phonetic unit is called a phoneme. In Chinese, incorrect pronunciation of some phonemes may lead to incorrect pronunciation of many syllables, that is, incorrect pronunciation of many characters. For example, the incorrect pronunciation of L means that all sounds with the initial consonant L are incorrect. Although it can generally be understood in real communication, obvious abnormalities can also be heard. Sometimes the L is omitted, and some are replaced by others, such as "李" is pronounced as "乙".

2. Incorrect pronunciation of phonemes in groups

In fact, "grouping" mainly means that the pronunciation parts are similar, such as the tongue-tip sounds "jqx", "zcs", "zhchshr", and the root tongue sounds "g, k" are not pronounced correctly. Some people cannot pronounce a group of notes correctly, and some people cannot pronounce part of the notes correctly. There are many possible causes for this situation, such as congenital cleft palate, hearing impairment, etc. It may also be a problem with the muscle function of the pronunciation organ itself, but generally

3. Nasal sound problem

Nasal problems are mostly caused by congenital cleft palate or problems with palate closure function. If it is congenital cleft palate, surgical repair is generally required, followed by speech correction. If it is just a functional disorder, it can be corrected directly.

4. Most sounds are not pronounced correctly

It is often manifested in poor overall function of the vocal organs, hearing impairment, diseases or injuries of the nervous system, lack of pronunciation training caused by intellectual or cognitive disorders, etc. The findings of unclear speech and articulation in five-year-old children may vary depending on the cause, but some cases are not easy to distinguish. It requires extensive knowledge of speech pathology and experience in language disorder correction to make an accurate judgment. If direct correction is possible, a correction plan can be developed for speech correction based on the results of speech pathology analysis.