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Phonological Awareness: Normally Developing And Language Delayed Children, Hyla Rubin
Phonological Awareness: Normally Developing And Language Delayed Children, Hyla Rubin
Hyla Rubin
This study compared 15 nonnal and 13 language delayed fourand five-year-old children on a range of tasks of phonological awareness. The tasks differed in the degree of explicit linguistic analysis that was required. The language delayed group always performed below the level of the nonnal children, and there were significant group differences on several tasks. A significant interaction effect reflected the greater difficulty language delayed children experienced with tasks that required the most explicit analysis. The tasks used in this study could be used in intervention research with language delayed children. They can also be used in therapy and classroom …