Letter pronunciation ?

My girls, they turned 2 in January, are great speakers. We never spoke baby talk to them & call things by the true name rather than "bye-bye" or whatever. I am concerened though that they are not able to pronounce the letter L, they kind of make an r sound. Is this common? Something they will outgrow, or should I worry, get speech therapy etc.? They can say a three or four word sentence, clearly so that others can understand them. They have a ton of words in their vocabulary. Thanks!

 

Speech therapists use a chart that shows the age at which sounds should be mastered. Some are notoriously hard to get --l, r, and y come to my mind right away. Basically, 2 is too young to worry about any of them, based on what I remember. Just keep repeating the sound and the words correctly to them and they should get.

My speech therapist friend told me to work on it this way: repeat the sound 3 times, then say the word in question, then have them repeat that to you.

For instance, Ella has a hard time with y. So I say to her: "Yeh, yeh, yeh, yellow." It just gets them to slow down and isolate that sound.

 

^she's right, it's definitely a common letter to have difficulty w/.
There's children in my DD's K class that still aren't saying it properly and my DD is still struggling w/ her R's as well.

 

I found this, it may be useful to you:

http://parentcenter.babycenter.com/expert/...ment/69451.html

Peyton says gog for Dog, but can say daddy, so it feel relieved after reading it that it's normal.

 

Kyle had some issues I was concerned with and I had him evaluated when he was 4. They told me there were some enunciation problems and gave me some hints to help but that he didn't need any therapy, it would come with time. For Kyle it was k's, it would sound like he was saying his name was Tyle, we did like was suggested with the y's k, k, k, kyle. It did wonders but unfortunately they both started doing that with every word whether it started with a k or not, I was k, k, k, mommy!

 

Neither of mine can pronounce L and our SLP is completely unconcerned. I forget what age she said is developmentally appropriate, but basically she said it wasn't any time soon. My boys call legs "yegs" and their pillows "piccas" and all other variations of Ls and the SLP says they are all fine right now

 

lots of words here and 3-4 word sentences here too. Also letter mix ups. Here are funny examples.

Rachel calls Alexis - Sexi not Lexi, or sexist, not Alexis. or Axis. I'm not making an effort to correct it because it makes me laugh too much. I suppose I ought to correct it... but if Alexis is Axis, then would that make Rachel the Allies?

We are finally calling Sish by their correct name, Fish.
Alexis says Heddo not hello and Piddow not Pillow

when they were first learning their consonants I had the girls touch my mouth so they could "feel" the way the letter was made. if the letter is made more in the throat I now have them also touch my throat and try to get them to look at my mouth. I also have them go thru the alphabet phonetically, not saying the name of the letter but the sound of the letters. It's a good way to pass time in the car on the way home from Walmart.