BACKGROUND In Portugal, the routine clinical practice of speech and language therapists (SLTs) in treating children with all types of speech sound disorder (SSD) continues to be articulation therapy (AT). There is limited use of phonological therapy (PT) or phonological awareness training in Portugal. Additionally, at an international level there is a focus on collecting information on and diff...

To study the effects of clinicians' slow rate on the speech of children who stutter with and without a concomitant phonological disorder, an A-B-A-B single case design was used with six clinician-child dyads, where B = Clinician's slow speech rate model. Two boys and one girl, aged 49-54 months, stuttering with disordered phonology (S + DP), were compared to three boys aged 42-50 months, stutte...

This paper looks into the possibility of deriving manner of articulation classes from phoneme cooccurrence frequencies. We show that distance measures based on phoneme co-occurrence frequencies group abstract manner of articulation classes that participate in phonological processes in spite of high acoustic and articulatory variability, e. g: obstruents, liquids, approximants, etc. The test lan...

Theoretical frameworks for dyslexia must explain how the well-established phonological deficits and the literacy deficits arise. Our longstanding research programme has led to a distinctive 'twin level' framework that proposes, first, that the core deficits are well described in terms of poor skill automaticity. Second, these 'cognitive level' symptoms are attributed to abnormal cerebellar func...

The phonological memory skills of a group of children with disordered language development were compared with those of two control groups, one group matched on verbal abilities and the other matched on nonverbal intelligence. The language-disordered children were poorer at repeating single nonwords and recalling word lists than even the younger children of matched verbal abilities. The language...

BACKGROUND phonological disorder. AIM to verify the association between the phonological performance in picture naming and imitation tasks, assessing the occurrence of phonological processes and using the severity indexes of Percentage of Correct Consonants and Phonological Density Index. METHOD participants of this research were 50 phonologically disordered children, with no history of pri...

Sixty-one children, aged 3.6-5.0, with developmental phonological disorders (PD) participated in a study comparing the effects of metaphonologically (MET) or articulation-based (ART) therapy. Maturational effects were controlled for by the inclusion of 59 normally speaking control children of the same age range. Measures of phonological (speech) output and phonological awareness were taken befo...

Some problems have emerged related to the phonological errors made by first semester students in delivering their speaking performance. This research is intended analyze error performing self-introduction. study used qualitative method particularly terms of English phonology that focus on observing and analyzing observation English-speaking skill. In this research, collected data were form tran...

Abstract We examined the contribution of rapid automatized naming (RAN) components (articulation time, pause and time consistency) to reading fluency, comprehension, spelling in a sample 257 German children (139 boys, 118 girls; M age = 5.60 years, SD 0.31) followed from kindergarten Grade 1. In kindergarten, were assessed on measures RAN (colors objects), phonological awareness, letter-sound k...