ABSTRACT
As the foreigner cannot repeat sounds of an unfamiliar language that do not fit into his phonemic system, so it is not always easy to repeat the unintelligible speech of the dyslalic. It is very difficult to refrain from comparing how a dyslalic speaks with how one thinks he should speak. However, with practice attention may be paid to the content of the utterance as a whole rather than to sounds as though they are merely distortions of standard English speech. All children begin their language development with coarse distinctions and progress step by step to finer discriminations. The acquisition of language is a formidable task which can be accomplished only if all the mental faculties of the child continue working in close harmony. An utterance is “any stretch of talk by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. It is not in general identical with the sentence”.
