2 Studies On Phonological Disorders And Reading

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...and reading in children with speech sound disorders.

The purpose for this study was to investigate whether or not there was a significant relationship between phonological processing (PP) skills in children with speech sound disorders (SSD) prior to the kindergarten and their subsequent reading skill at the end of first grade. Phonological Processing skills, the reader can gather from context, refers to “speech perception and rime awareness” (Kvachew, 2007, p. 260). Speech Sound Disorders was not defined, as the authors assumed reader awareness of this term. Familiarity with other terms, such as receptive vocabulary, was also assumed.
The rationale for this study is the fact that there is evidence that SSD may be a factor in students developing reading disability (RD). This study further explores this relationship using 3 groups of children: 17 with SSD and low PP skills; 16 with SSD and good PP skills; and 35 normally developing children. While the findings showed that the first group of students (SSD-low PP) had greater difficulty with...

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