Parent-friendly definitions

Glossary

Published: 24 June 2024

Last modified: 22 July 2026

A parent-friendly glossary to demystify the complex domain of speech and language.

Working on phonological processes (fronting, stopping, gliding, deaffrication, final consonant deletion, cluster reduction)? See the Phonological Processes guide.

A – C

Articulation Disorders
Articulation Therapy
Cleft Palate
Cluster Reduction (Consonant)

D – G

Deaffrication
Emergent Literacy
Final Consonant Deletion
Fronting
Gliding

H – L

Hypernasality / Nasal Voice
Lisp

M – P

Minimal Pairs
Phonological Processes

Q – Z

Stopping

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