#364 A mother brings in her 3-year-old child for a speech ev…

#364 A mother brings in her 3-year-old child for a speech evaluation. The child has age-appropriate language skills, is approximately 75% intelligible to unfamiliar listeners, and has a phonetic inventory that includes the following consonants: /m, b, j, n, w, d, p, h, t, k, g, f/. The child does not yet consistently produce the following sounds: /ʧ, ʤ, s, z, l, r/. The mother expresses concern about the child’s speech sound errors and intelligibility. As the evaluating clinician, how should you best respond to the mother’s concerns?