F*** instead of truck : o

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Time and smirking out of sight.

First the adults are upset because they know the word that is too close - kids don't and he isnt' doing it on purpose. He can say tractor becuase the vowel sound that follows the tr puts the tongue into a different position.

My daughter was a dreadful talker and has speech therapy. She basically learned to speak letter by letter. Some you put the tongue to the front of your mouth against your teeth, some you curl it to the back, etc. Then when you group letters into blends you have to find a middle ground for the tongue. The more he uses his mouth to talk the sooner the sounds will come. R is a hard sound to make and then mix it in a blend compounds that. It is the R sound he is missing so work on words that start with r. We played silly word using the vowels a,e,i,o,u such as ran, ren, rin, ron, run so practice rack, reck, rick, rock, ruck. When he can say ruck correctly consistently then do the blend so now it becomes treck, trick, track, trock, truck. Clap your hands as you say the chant - basically you are counting to five. Start slowly to get all of the sounds then speed it up - the speeding up helps it to become more automatic to make that sound.

Do it with all of the kids under the quise of language and phonics so he doesn't feel centred out. If you still see no progress over time then he may need to be assessed for speech.