Citation: Boyes ME, Leitão S, Claessen M, Dzidic P, Boyle G, Perry A and Nayton M (2017) Improving Phonological Awareness in Parents of Children at Risk of Literacy Difficulties: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Boost Program. Front. Educ. 2:47. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00047 improving Phonological awareness in Parents of children at risk of literacy Difficulties: a Preliminary evaluation of the ...

The structure of phonological processing for typically developing children has been debated over the past two decades. Recent research has indicated that phonological processing is best explained by a single underlying phonological ability (e.g., Anthony and Lonigan, 2004). The current study had two goals. The first goal was to determine the structure of phonological processing for school-age c...

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...