Speech development patterns and phonological awareness in preschool children

Abstract

To examine the association between speech production and early literacy skills, this study of 102 preschool children looked at phonological awareness in relation to whether children were delayed, typical, or advanced in their articulation of consonants. Using a developmental typology inspired by some of the literature on speech development (Kahn and Lewis, The Kahn-Lewis phonological analysis, 1986; Shriberg, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 36(1):105-140, 1993a), we found that failure to master the early-8 consonants and a greater prevalence of certain types of production errors were associated with deficient phonological awareness. We also found that children who made no consonant errors had advanced phonological awareness relative to other children in the sample. In all cases, both productive speech patterns and speech errors were more closely linked with rhyme awareness than with phoneme awareness. The association between speech production and rhyme awareness may provide some new directions for the early preschool assessment of risk for reading problems.

Investigating Phonological Awareness in Persian-Speaking Children With Phonological Disorders

“…The performance of phonological delayed children in PA skills corresponds to their delay in speech production. Since both speech production and PA need representation of phonological structure (12), we believe delay in early phonological development also postpone other skills that need phonological representation; this is consistent with Mann and Foy (2007) (12).…”

“…Some researchers have indicated the effect of error type on PA. They found that children with more atypical errors experience inferior performance in PA skills (12,15,16). The literature has also shown that there is a positive relation between speech sound accuracy measured by percent consonant correct (PCC) and PA skills (17).…”

“…In addition to being inter-related, speech production and PA both require internal representation of phonological structure (12). Phonological representation is the base of speech production (13).…”

“…Phonological representation is the base of speech production (13). Therefore, PA is associated with correct speech production and comprehension (12). Several studies have shown that children with PD and language impairment (LI) were more at risk for PA, reading, and writing difficulties as compared to children with PD without LI (8,14).…”

Desempenho de escolares com dislexia do desenvolvimento em tarefas fonológicas e silábicas

“…As diferenças individuais em vocabulário, repetição de não-palavras e consciência fonológica são fatores importantes para o prognóstico do desenvolvimento da leitura e das habilidades relacionadas. O que as pesquisas mostram é que o caminho mais efetivo para a aprendizagem da leitura passa pelo desenvolvimento da consciência fonêmica 26 .…”