Phonological abilities of preschool children

The Proportional Reasoning Abilities of Preschool Children

Short-term phonological memory in preschool children.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to design a short-term memory test, to describe quantitative performance in typically language developing children and to verify the relationship between the non-words repetition and oral phonological measure. METHODS The participants included 136 typically language developing children aged from 3 years to 6 years and 11 months old in this study, who were...

Comparison of Phonological Awareness Abilities of Bilingual and Monolingual Children

This critical review investigates differences in phonological awareness abilities of monolingual and bilingual children. Study designs included 6 cohort studies describing and comparing two distinct linguistic groups. Overall the evidence is inconclusive, with some studies supporting, and others refuting, a bilingual advantage to phonological awareness. Although no generalized understanding of ...

Phonological Awareness Abilities of Cantonese-speaking Children with Down Syndrome

This study investigated the phonological awareness abilities of Cantonese-speaking children with Down syndrome. The phonological awareness abilities of 16 children with Down syndrome (DS) aged between 7;03 to 14;09, 16 children with intellectual disability of unknown origin (ID) aged between 7;09 to 14;06 and 16 children with normal intelligence (NI) aged between 3;6 to 9;0, matched on mental a...

Bilingual Phonological Acquisition of Preschool Children of Puerto Rican Descent

The purpose of this study was to describe longitudinally the phonological acquisition of 43 children of Puerto Rican descent who were acquiring Spanish and English sequentially or simultaneously from the ages of three to five years. Spanish and English language samples were obtained at the beginning and end of each year of two years of Head Start preschool (Times 1-4). Language samples were ana...