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[quote=Anonymous]OP, we had this issue with our 4 year old and I just worked with him myself.  He would have trouble pronouncing "v" sounds and "r" and also mix sounds together with certain words, like your animal example.  Each night after books and when I am tucking him in, I made it into a game of him repeating after me.  We would work on same words over and over.  "can you say...va nil la?"  "can you say red?  write? con struc tion site"?  Things like that over and over and he would get better with time. Make it light, make it fun, just find a way to keep breaking apart those words and practicing each syllable.  Sometimes he would bring up words he thinks are hard to pronounce and ask me "mommy can you say ..."  and then we would practice that word together.  That simply nightly game made a huge difference for my son.  You can still get him evaluated but I am one of those people who think we turn to others too quickly when we can just set up and do it ourselves and develop a stronger parent-child relationship at the same time.  Good luck![/quote]

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