ERIC Number: EJ984139
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Oct
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0265-6590
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Dynamic Assessment of Phonological Awareness for Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Gillam, Sandra Laing; Ford, Mikenzi Bentley
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, v28 n3 p297-308 Oct 2012
The current study was designed to examine the relationships between performance on a nonverbal phoneme deletion task administered in a dynamic assessment format with performance on measures of phoneme deletion, word-level reading, and speech sound production that required verbal responses for school-age children with speech sound disorders (SSDs). The study adds to existing literature by administering the nonverbal task to children with SSDs, and by incorporating the use of an error-specific prompting system in a dynamic assessment format to inform instructional decisions. Ten school-age children with various degrees of speech sound disorders participated in the study. Speech production, phonological awareness, and word-level reading skills were examined. Performance on measures of verbal and nonverbal phoneme deletion were significantly correlated; however, the measure of nonverbal phoneme deletion was not related to performance on measures of speech sound production. Both measures were related to word-level reading. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Speech, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes, Speech Impairments, Task Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Nonverbal Ability, Verbal Ability, Correlation, Children
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Utah
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation; Test of Nonverbal Intelligence; Woodcock Reading Mastery Test
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