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Articulation Checklist
Difficulty with 1 or more sounds between your child's age range and the ranges before your child's current age suggest your child would benefit from Articulation intervention.
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Age
Initial Position Sounds
Medial Position Sounds
Final Position Sounds
Anchor 1
2 years old
/b/ - baby
/d/ - dog
/h/ - hot
/m/ - mom
/n/ - no
/p/ - pop
/b/ - table
/m/ - mommy
/n/ - bunny
/m/ - come
/p/ - pop
Anchor 2
3 years old
/f/ - fish
/g/ - go
/k/ - cat
/t/ - top
/w/ - water
/f/ - breakfast
/g/ - froggy
/k/ - picnic
/ng/- finger
/p/ - hippo
/t/ - kitty
/b/ - cub
/d/ - dad
/g/ - tug
/k/ - duck
/n/ - bun
/t/ - cat
Anchor 3
4 years old
/kw/ - quick
/d/ - Tuesday
/f/ - puff
Anchor 4
5 years old
/ch/ - chase
/j/ - jump
/l/ - ladder
/s/ - spider
/sh/ - shop
/y/ - yellow
/bl/ - black
/ch/ - catching
/j/ - major
/l/ - holler
/sh - fishing
/z/ - puzzle
/l/ - ball
/ng/ - song
/ch/ - catch
/j/ - bridge
/s/ - hats
/sh/ - brush
/r/ - car
/v/ - love
/z/ - bees
Anchor 5
6 years old
/r/ - orbit
/v/ - television
/r/ - rabbit
/v/ - vroom
/br/ - break
/dr/ - drive
/fl/ - flag
/gl/ - glove
/gr/ - grass
/kl/ - clock
/kr/ - cricket
/pl/ - play
/st/ - stop
/tr/ - truck
Anchor 6
7 years old
/z/ - zip
/sl/ - slurp
/sp/ - spell
/sw/ - swing
/th/ - think
/th/ - brother
/th/ - bath
Speech sound acquisition norms were obtained from the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2 at which 85% of the GFTA-2 standardization sample correctly produced the consonant and consonant cluster sounds at the indicated age.
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