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Alphabet Knowledge and Phonological Awareness in Children with Speech Sound Disorder

Tambyraja, Sherine R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345081761

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Speech and Hearing Science.
Considerable evidence has shown that kindergarten measures of phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are significant predictors of word decoding ability in many typically developing children. Many children with speech sound disorder (SSD) have been found to exhibit poor phonological awareness; however, very few studies have provided a thorough investigation of their knowledge about letter names and letter sounds. The current study was thus designed to examine alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness, and their relationships, in kindergarten children with SSD (n = 16). Alphabet knowledge was assessed by comparing accuracy in naming of all 26 letter names and letter sounds, and was further evaluated to determine differences as a function of letter name category. Two levels of phonological awareness on an elision task (larger vs. smaller units) were compared. Finally, correlations between alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness levels were calculated. Overall, participants knew more letter names than letter sounds, and their letter sound knowledge varied according to letter name categories. Participants exhibited greater accuracy when deleting larger sized units, as compared to smaller units. Furthermore, children whose speech errors were atypical or severely delayed for their age had the lowest scores on the elision task, but performed as well as others on both measures of alphabet knowledge. Outcomes from this study suggest that some children with isolated SSD would have acquired knowledge about letter names and sounds in their kindergarten year, but may encounter difficulty in developing deeper levels of phonological awareness.
Rebecca McCauley, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laura Justice, PhD (Committee Member)
Monique Mills, PhD (Committee Member)
Shayne Piasta, PhD (Committee Member)
120 p.
Early Childhood Education; Speech Therapy
alphabet knowledge; phonological awareness; speech sound disorder

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  • Tambyraja, S. R. (2012). Alphabet Knowledge and Phonological Awareness in Children with Speech Sound Disorder [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345081761

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tambyraja, Sherine. Alphabet Knowledge and Phonological Awareness in Children with Speech Sound Disorder. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345081761.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tambyraja, Sherine. "Alphabet Knowledge and Phonological Awareness in Children with Speech Sound Disorder." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345081761

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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