What is cleft palate/lip? Cleft means “divide”. Children with a cleft lip or a palate have a lip or a palate where both sides are not joined together. This means that there is a hole in their lip, palate or both of these structures. A cleft lip can usually be 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…