Preschool children at familial risk for reading disability were assessed on cognitive and linguistic variables and compared with preschoolers without familial risk. Risk children displayed performance profiles resembling those of older children with reading disability. Each group received intensive instruction in phonemic awareness and structured book reading. Instructed risk children made some...

A longitudinal study of one child aged 2;5 documents an invented language game consisting of suffixal reduplication and onset replacement. Initially, reduplication is partial: the reduplicant enlarges in discrete increments over the five stages of the game until by the last stage reduplication is total. Reduplication is accompanied by a process of onset replacement, in which the reduplicant alw...

Pick up a recent article on reading and you are very likely to encounter terms like phonological, phoneme, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phoneme discrimination, phoneme identification, phonological processing, phonological decoding, phonemegrapheme correspondences, phonological dyslexia, phonics, or other phon words. The meanings of these many terms have much in common, but in no ...

-When subjects attend to the task of naming a briefly presented picture, their naming latencies are affected by a word presented by the side of the picture whether they are able to recognise the word or not. For unreported words the effect is stronger with related than with unrelated words, but this is reversed for words which enter awareness. Moreover, this relationship is largely a left hemis...

The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min/week during one school year. Following a pretest – interim test – post-test – retention test design, the effects on rhyming, phonemic segmentation, auditory blending, and grapheme kn...

Problem statement: Developmental Dyslexia (DD) or Reading Disability (RD) that was part of a larger heterogeneous group of learning disorders and characterized by unexpected problems in academic performance, despite average intelligence. Approach: Current opinions on the biological basis of dyslexia pointed to problems with phonological processing deficits with resulting poor phonemic awareness...

The double-deficit hypothesis provides a framework for identifying students atrisk for persistent reading difficulties. I examined the temporal stability of four double-deficit subtypes (no-deficit, naming-speed deficit, phonological deficit, and double-deficit) in 197 low-performing, first-grade readers. Concurrent analyses in fall and spring revealed that students with poor phonemic awareness...

Pronunciation is an essential part of language learning. We need to possess intelligible pronunciation communicate effectively. The study sometimes becomes fatigued and challenging for teachers. They should not employ a repeat after me technique but include senses, sights, or even move teach pronunciation. Sounds spelling exercises could be helpful effective practice because they relate phonemi...

The aim of the present study was to characterize the phonological awareness abilities of a child with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) before and after speech-language therapy. The participant was a 6-year-old girl, first-grade Elementary School student, with AIDS acquired by vertical transmission. The child's phonological awareness abilities were evaluated using the Instrument of Sequ...