Abstract A child’s early literacy and language skills are the most reliable predictor of future academic achievement. Despite vast amounts research supporting this link, many children start formal schooling with low skills. Without intervention or support, these will likely continue to fall behind their peers. This exploratory study investigated effectiveness a parent-led phonological awareness...

Za upis djece u prvi razred osnovne škole provodi se testiranje kojemu je jedan od temeljnih zadataka provjeriti spremnost djeteta na kognitivnoj i emocionalnoj razini. Na razini najviše posvećuje provjeri grafomotoričke spremnosti te fonološke osviještenosti. Upravo za taj test pripremaju djeca pripremnom razdoblju, godinu dana prije polaska školu, a koji naziva predškolom organizira vrtićkoj ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A deficit in phonological processing abilities has been hypothesized as a cause of reading deficits among poor readers, but the precise etiology of this deficit is still unknown. Many studies have investigated the relation of auditory processing and speech perception with phonological processing, while the relation between these are not well understood. Thus, the prese...

Phonological skills are enhanced by music training, but the mechanisms enabling this cross-domain enhancement remain unknown. To explain this cross-domain transfer, we propose a precise auditory timing hypothesis (PATH) whereby entrainment practice is the core mechanism underlying enhanced phonological abilities in musicians. Both rhythmic synchronization and language skills such as consonant d...

Background: auditory training program in students with learning disabilities. Aim: to verify the efficacy of an auditory training program in students with learning disabilities; to compare the results of students with and without learning disabilities, who were and were not submitted to the auditory training program, in pre and post-testing. Method: participants were 40 students who were divide...

Phonological awareness is believed to play a major role in the auditory contribution to spelling skills. The previous paper reports low-level auditory deficits in five different subdomains in 33-70% of the dyslexics. The first study of this paper reports the results of an attempt to improve low-level auditory skills by systematic daily practice of those tasks that had not been passed in previou...