Final consonant deletion

Final consonant deletion is a phonological process in language where children delete the final consonant off words.

Deleting the final consonants on words looks like this—> Cat becomes Ca

At the word level it may not sound too difficult to understand, but what about when this starts to happen in phrases and full sentences…

/Mom I want ice cream/ suddenly becomes —–> /mo I wan I crea/

Not so easy to understand anymore, huh?

Present these words to your kiddo and then have them imitate the words back to you.

This is a good place to start. Once your child can repeat the words with the final consonants, see if they can successfully say final consonants at the phrase level, and once they succeed there, listen out for their errors in conversational speech and use any opportunity to model correct language for them.