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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 3297976" data-attributes="member: 3854">The difference is forming the words incorrectly, but within the normal range of “incorrectness” (learning), and not being able to form the sounds at all, or outside the normal range of incorrectness (physically prevented because of a relatively very minor nervous system miswiring).Examples:Most 2-year-olds can say several body parts, even if it is with the “baby accent” – “no” [nose], “mouf” [mouth], “eah” [ear], “eye”, “chee” [cheek], “haeh” [hair]; a stranger can understand those words from the 2-year-old, especially in context. My son can’t say any of those except “eye”. He can point them all out when you ask him, but he can’t verbalize the words. If they come out at all, it is “uh” or “ah”.Most 2-year-olds can say “pizza”. “pee-zaa.” My 2-year-old can say “pee” but can’t say “zaa” – it comes out “uh”. And he can’t say them close together, as one word – “pee-uh.” In fact, he won’t even try to say it without a lot of prompting, and then it comes out as “pee. uh.”Even “yes” and “no”. My son says “uh huh” [yes], and just shakes head for no. What 2-year-old can’t say “no”? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />It’s really an amazingly interesting disorder. Such a little thing, really, but it has such a big “blast radius” for effect for a child. The child looks, acts, and is perfectly normal in all ways, except he can’t say certain sounds. Fortunately, since this was recognized early, and he is getting proper “treatment” for it early, he will probably be functionally verbal by school age (though probably with an “accent”).I was asking here to just see if anyone in my extended “world” had experienced this. I’m fascinated by it. Imagine if there were some sounds you [general use “you”, not anyone in particular] just could not verbalize. You can read them, hear them, and fully understand them, but just can’t make them come out of your perfectly healthy and normal mouth. Weird.Quasqueton</blockquote>

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