What are gestures? Gesture is defined as an action or movement of the body with an intention to communicate an idea or meaning. Since it does not involve words, it is a non-verbal form of communication. Long before a child utters his first word, he would have been waving, reaching Read more
Why Do We Mess Up the TH Sound? The TH sound is the one where many of us Singaporeans trip up. As Singaporeans, we tend to say “mons” instead of “months” and “mouf” instead of “mouth”. I’m not sure why this is the case, but I do suspect that it Read more
Wondering what an error with the S sound sounds like? Just listen to a an interview with Mike Tyson. You’d notice that his tongue is between his teeth, and it almost sounds like he is making the TH sound. Or if you listen to the interview with Barbara Walters, her Read more
“Wook! There’s a cat over there!” “I hurt my yeg”. These kind of utterances are common among children who have difficulty pronouncing the L sound. As you can see, these children often substitute the L sound with the W or Y sound. And if you need an example of this Read more
If you have been a speech therapist for more than a month, chances are that you would have encountered a child with difficulty producing the R sound. The difficulty in the R sound lies in the fact that it requires very precise tongue control. This however, is something that does Read more