Early, Middle, and Late sounds

Speech Sound Devlopement:

**Adapted from Shriberg's Order of Speech-Sound Acquisition (1993)

Early 8 Sounds

Emerging Development, between 1-3 years with consistent production ~ age 3

• /m/ as in “mama”
• /b/ as in “baby”
• /y/ as in “you”
• /n/ as in “no”
• /w/ as in “we”
• /d/ as in “daddy”
• /p/ as in “pop”/h/ as in “hi”

Middle 8 Sounds

Emerging development  between 3-6 ½ with consistent production ~ age 5 ½

•  /t/ as in “two”
•  /k/ as in “cup”
•  /g/ as in “go”
• /f/ as in “fish”
• /v/ as in “van”
• /ch/ as in “chew”
• /j/ as in “jump"

Late 8 Sounds

Emerging Development Between ages 5 -7 with Consistent production ~ age 7

•  /sh/ as in sheep
•  /s/ as in “see”
• /th/ as in “think”
• /th/ as in “that”
• /r/ as in “red”
• /z/ as in “zoo”
• /l/ as in “like”
• /zh/ as in “measure”         

See Attachments for more information!