If your child struggles to say the /r/ sound, welcome—you’ve joined a very large, very relatable club. As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often joke that the /r/ sound is the final boss of articulation. It wiggles. It curls. It refuses to sit still. It has roughly 74 versions (okay, technically  eight, but still). And yes, it can cause a lot of understandable worry. Children (and even adults!) can have a tough time with /r/, whether it’s part of a broader speech so