Common worries
About a child’s speech and/or language
You may be worried about your child
- Stammering
- Sounding hoarse
- Using only one word
- Talking, but incomprehensibly
- Being late in relation to a developmental milestone
- Not putting words together in the usual way
- Not putting sounds together the correct way
- Having difficulty with one or more particular sounds
- Missing out the little words like a and the
- Learning to read or write
Some of these worries relate to a recognised area of linguistics. I treat all of them – focusing on those areas where I have the most relevant expertise – disorders particular to language and to speech.