ABSTRACT
Children appear to miss off the last consonant in a syllable or word. Development of final consonants is common in two-year-olds, but three-year-olds can usually pronounce the ends of syllables and words, even if not quite correctly. Often children can say some sounds at the ends of words even if they miss others off. The sounds most commonly missed are stops and fricatives ‘s’ and ‘z’. This chapter details the activities to increase awareness of sounds at the ends of words. A number of different target sounds are included in these activities. These are listed under ‘target sound’ or ‘target sounds’ if there is more than one. The contrast in each case is marked by 0 as the child misses the sounds from the ends of some words. These activities are only a few of those that speech and language therapists can use to help the child who is working on the error pattern ‘final consonant deletion’.
