When your baby is just born, their mouth, tongue and cheeks have already developed the strong muscles and skills to suck, enabling them to start feeding immediately. However, even with all this strength and dexterity, it will take years for these same muscles to develop sufficiently for your child to properly enunciate all the sounds needed for clear, understandable words.
New Canaan Pediatrics is here to explain which sounds you can expect to hear first, which can be a real challenge and when intervention may be needed. [Read more…] about Let’s Talk About Speech Development!