Phonological Awareness and its implications for Reading Acquisition

Action Research Project Phonological Awareness and Reading Acquisition Phonological Awareness and Reading Acquisition

The relationship between phonological awareness and reading: implications for the assessment of phonological awareness.

PURPOSE Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use phonological awareness assessments in many ways. This study examines the usefulness of these assessments in kindergarten and 2nd grade. METHOD Measures of phonological awareness and letter identification were administered in kindergarten, and measures of phonological awareness, phonetic decoding (i.e., nonword reading), and word reading were adm...

Reading skills and phonological awareness acquisition in Down syndrome.

BACKGROUND Although reading abilities play a fundamental role in the acquisition of personal autonomy, up until now studies investigating these abilities in Down syndrome (DS) are aimed at defining educational or rehabilitation acquisition. However, studies describing the relationship between reading and phonological awareness in individuals with DS by comparing them to typically developing chi...

Phonological Awareness and Reading Ability in Children

Correlations between reading, phonological awareness and auditory temporal processing.

BACKGROUND Auditory temporal processing and reading. AIM To analyse the potential correlations between reading acquisition, phonological awareness, and auditory temporal processing in Brazilian children with dyslexia. METHOD This study evaluated sixty children, nine to twelve years of age, divided into two groups: a control group of twenty seven children without dyslexia and a study group o...

Exploring the Relationship Between Phonological Awareness and Reading Ability: From Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives

The present study investigated the way elementary school teachers perceive the importance of phonological awareness in their classroom experiences. To achieve the aim, 75 elementary school teachers of both genders with diverse years of experience and qualifications from 25 elementary schools in Khorram Abad, Iran were selected. In order to obtain the data, the modified version of the Likert-typ...