Hi everyone
On the subject of initial consonant deletion, does anyone know whether this is common if a child has a hearing impairment? (I am not an expert in the field of hearing impairment!). I am currently seeing a child of 3:6 who has a moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss in one ear. Hearing in the other ear fluctuates (from normal to mild/moderate loss) due to conductive hearing loss due to glue ear on occasions. He is doing well, but ICD is still a problem with fricatives, affricates, approximants and the sounds /k/ & /t/. With therapy he is now using /b/, /d/./m/, /n/& /g/ word initially but has not generalised the actually process yet. Just wondered if the ICD was likely to due to his hearing difficulties or due to a phonological disorder? Pre-vocalic voicing is evident but blends are starting to emerge and word final consonants are all correct. No vowel distortions either.
Many thanks. I was always taught in college in the UK that ICD is not a normal process in children with normal phonological development. However, I followed my own children's phonological development with great interest and both of them had ICD with some sounds when they first started talking up until about 2 years (everything else was age appropriate). My son's name is Sean and he called himself 'orn' for ages, then 'norn', 'sorn' and finally 'Sean'! Anyway, I digress!
Many thanks for any responses
Cathy
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