Phonological Awareness Essay

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Phonological awareness (PA) is a form of metalinguistic awareness and refers to the ability to carry out mental operations on units of speech and is considered to be particularly important for early literacy development (Anthony & Francis, 2005). The development of PA follows two patterns. Firstly, with increasing age children become increasingly aware of smaller parts of words. The increasing order of development progresses through detection and manipulation of syllables, onset-rimes and words. Second, they become capable to detect similar and dissimilar sounding words before they acquire the ability to manipulate sounds and they blend phonological information before they could segment phonological information of the same linguistic complexity. Specific PA skills include syllable-level awareness, onset-rime awareness, and phonemic awareness. Children with Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) may have a deficit of PA which is associated with the speech output …show more content…

The identification and management of PA is proved to be a significant part of paediatric speech-language pathology practice (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2001). Children with SSD exhibit more difficulties in PA when compared to other speech and language disorders. These children are expected to have difficulties in word, syllable and phoneme levels (Bird et al., 1995). There are published studies on profiling PA skills in western monolingual and bilingual SSD population. On the counterpart, profiling PA skills in Indian children with SSD have not been explored. A comparison of PA skills between typically developing (TD) children and children with SSD may provide the impact of phonological impairment on PA skills. This information can further be used for planning effective intervention

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