The anthropocentric focus of contemporary linguistic research highlights the specificity individual worldview which includes a personal sense toponymy. studies discussing ways that toponymic concepts are apprehended, memorized, and retrieved from memory usually based on experimental data. But looking at irregular changes toponyms may receive in speech is no less informative. Children’s proves m...

Reading and music instruction can form a symbiotic relationship to positively impact lower-elementary literacy increase student engagement. In this action research study, cross-curricular between reading at the 2nd grade elementary level was taught by both teacher. This study employed reading, rhythm, rhyme, instrumentation, writing, physical movement, song benefit students’ phonemic awareness ...

The aim of this research was to analyze temporal auditory processing and phonological awareness in school-age children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS). Patient group (GI) consisted of 13 children diagnosed with BECTS. Control group (GII) consisted of 17 healthy children. After neurological and peripheral audiological assessment, children underwent a behavioral ...

OBJECTIVES Listeners use their knowledge of how language is structured to aid speech recognition in everyday communication. When it comes to children with congenital hearing loss severe enough to warrant cochlear implants (CIs), the question arises of whether these children can acquire the language knowledge needed to aid speech recognition, in spite of only having spectrally degraded signals a...

Increasingly, children with Down syndrome receive literacy instruction with the expectation of acquiring functional reading skills. Unfortunately, little is known about the processes underlying literacy skills in this special population. Phonological awareness contributes to literacy development in typically developing children, however, there is inconclusive evidence about these skills in youn...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The primary purpose of this study was to assess whether very early access to speech sounds provided by the cochlear implant enables children to develop age-appropriate phonological awareness abilities in their preschool and school years. A secondary purpose of this study was to examine whether children who had cochlear implantation before 18 months of age will develop ...