Question

A 7-year-old boy with a speech impairment makes the following statement to his mother: "I hur my han when I wan into the fence." The boy was attempting to say, "I hurt my hand when I ran into the fence." This child is demonstrating the speech production errors of _______.

Answer 1

Answer:

Substitution and omission

Explanation:

Substitution error: The term substitution error is defined as the speech sound error in which an individual's sound related to a specific word is replicated to that of another word's sound.

Example: The letter r is being replaced with the letter w, producing a sound of the word rabbit as wabbit.

Omission error: The term omission error is defined as a type of speech sound error in which an individual's sound related to a specific word is being omitted.

Example: Lisp sounds.