Phonological Awareness in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Literature Review
Even though advanced cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) technology is making tremendous strides in the DHH community, these hearing devices still cannot completely restore normal hearing or fully represent all aspects of normal speech sounds. Therefore, children within this population are potentially at a higher risk for speech disorders, speech delays, or language difficulties. The acquisition of phonological awareness (PA) and PA abilities is an important developmental step in speech and language. Moreover, PA skills have been shown to significantly affect early literacy abilities in normal hearing children. PA is commonly defined as the conscious ability
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Their main goal was to gain a better understanding of the phonological structure and representation of DHH children who use CIs or HAs, which will ultimately improve the identification and habilitation of at risk children. In the studies included in this literature review, PA was found to be an indicator of early literacy abilities, PA was found to be related to other areas, most importantly vocabulary, and researchers agree that more studies should be conducted to identify techniques and strategies that explicitly target PA in DHH youth. The majority of these studies comprise similar limitations, such as small sample sizes. PA is beneficial for normal hearing and DHH children alike in relation to their literacy …show more content…
(2011), and Johnson and Goswami (2010) all provide evidence that PA is an indicator of early literacy abilities in the DHH population. Cupples et al. (2014) controlled for many variables such as receptive language, nonverbal cognitive ability, and various relevant demographic variables. Researchers from this study found that the relationship between PA is associated with early reading skills, but not other academic areas, specifically, math reasoning. This is important to note because it shows the direct and distinct correlation between PA and reading. Moreover, Dillon et al. (2011) found a strong correlation between the children’s reading scores and their PA abilities demonstrated by LAC3, PIAT Reading Recognition, PIAT Reading Comprehension, PIAT Total Reading, WRMT-WA, and PPVT test scores and their equivalent scores comparatively. Furthermore, Johnson and Goswami (2010) conclude that their participant’s reading development, measured by reading standard and quotient scores, was significantly linked to PA. If taken as truth, these results have considerable implications to Communication Sciences and Disorders as well as the DHH population because they outline a clear approach to the prevention and treatment of early literacy
The Basic Reading Skills composite measures T’Niq’s ability to read a list of words and correctly pronounce nonsense words. T’Niq’s standard score of 72 falls in the low range at the 3rd percentile, indicating that he performed the same as or above 3 percent of his same-aged peers. Based on T’Niq’s performance on this composite, it appears that he will benefit from explicit instruction on word recognition skills and phonics skills.
Additionally, it is important to notice that Snowling et al. (2003) found that so-called unaffected children from high-risk family performed significantly better than impaired children in the tests of phonological skills, while they performed significantly poor in digit span and rhyme oddity, and performed marginally poor than the control group in the rest of tasks at 6 years. FR children for dyslexia who had milder phonological deficits might “escape” literacy problems, which emphasizes that causes do not operate in an all-or-none condition, and weakness in PA or LK alone might not sufficient to cause dyslexia. In other words, dyslexia appears to be multi-componential. Phonological
The study pinpoints early difficulties in phonology and morphology identified by standardized language assessments as a marker for persistent language delay as well as the child’s preschool lexical capability. The study suggests that if a child falls below normal limits in these categories in preschool it is likely that their language development will be delayed throughout elementary school. As for the cochlear implant itself, the research shows that low technology speech processors within the cochlear implant have a negative impact on a child’s language development. The research also suggests implantation before the age of 18 months as it is linked to a higher chance of normal language
Although second language learning and adult experiences learning new words are not precisely correlated to the problems that children and adolescents may experience, this example ask Speech- language pathologist and audiology to consider the dynamic interplay between language knowledge and auditory processing in the forefront of their discussion. Furthermore, Wallach suggested practitioners should treat children diagnosed with APD the same way they treat children who have been diagnosed with language and learning disabilities. Keep auditory weakness identified one’s audiology colleagues in perspective. Even if auditory problems exist, focusing on language should be incorporated. Keep contextualized and decontextualized aspects of language clearly defined, and understand the role of contextual support in both spoken and written language, especially when addressing a child’s auditory processing skills and
Phonological disorders are multiple speech sound error patterns or adult child production mismatches that persist beyond certain age levels, as shown in Table 1; often losing phonemic contrasts, significantly impairing speech intelligibility, and are presumably due to an underlying problem in phonological representation or knowledge. (Pena-Brooks & Hedge, 2015). Children with phonological disorders seem to have plateaued in acquisition because they persist in using immature patterns and/or form idiosyncratic ways of coping with word production. (Stoel-Gammon & Dunn, 1985). For example, the process of fronting involves substituting all sounds made in the back of the mouth like /k/ and /g/ for those in the front of the
The research is expanding in the area of evidence-based reading interventions to include children who have intellectual disabilities. Phonological awareness is gaining support as a critical element in reading instruction as shown in student performances using targeted intervention measures that align to the student’s instructional level and to reading standards (Lemons, Mrachko, Kostewicz, & Paterra, 2012). Without explicit instruction in phonological
If parents take interest in their children learning process early on, then they will have a head start in being successful in reading. As teachers, we build on the children’s phonemic awareness to be able to teach phonics and
Speech and language development is critical for academic success and building important relationships. In order to interpret and reciprocate language in the spoken word, the sense of hearing must be stimulated. If there is any degree of nerve damage or conductive hearing loss it can affect a child’s receptive or expressive language and can make understanding difficult concepts in an academic setting even more challenging. There are communicative limitations for the hearing impaired, which is ranked the third most common contemporary health disorder (Vidranski & Farkaš, 2015).
Farquharson Centanni, Franzluebbers and Hogan (2014) examined the influence of word-level phonological and lexical characteristics of phonological awareness. In this study, children with dyslexia and/or specific language impairment (SLI) were tested using a phoneme deletion task in which stimuli differed orthogonally by sound similarity and
Component 10 The purpose of the Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology (CAAP) is to assess articulation and phonology in preschool and school-age children (2 years 6 months to 8 years 11 months). It is an efficient way to test the most common phonological processes, inventory their articulation abilities, and compare word and sentence level competency in children. The normative sample is made up of 1707 children. 1619 children are from the United States and 88 children are from Canada.
First, there’s no guarantee that these children hear the differences between the sounds within words because they use hearing devices. Additionally, a possibility exists that DHH children can correctly decode unknown words but they lack comprehension of the text. Thus, a child may appear to be fluent because they are word-calling. An important note is that in order for a child to be fluent, they must have both background knowledge and vocabulary. Without this information, fluency cannot be truly achieved. This is problematic because in order to achieve comprehension, a reader must also be
Five studies that fall within the realm of phonemic awareness in early childhood are tier two interventions in response to family income, knowing when and how much to teach, parental involvement, phonemic awareness instruction helping children read, and orthographic influences. Although each of these studies is very different from one another they all have one similar concept, the effect of phonemic awareness on early childhood. Based on these five studies the members of the national reading panel consider children’s ability to perform phonemic awareness tasks easier for those who have already learned to read and write (Ehri et al., 2001). It is thought that phonemic awareness contributes in various ways to a child’s ability to reading words, as the structure of the English writing system is alphabetic (Ehri et al.,
This study evaluated factors that may easily influence speech and language for children with severe hearing loss. Hearing loss is something that is very common amongst new born and affecting them tremendously. In every 1000 newborns there are at least one-three that are born with hearing loss also known as HL. Researchers identify and screen newborns with hearing loss to minimize the impact it has on children. They want to identify the problem early because late diagnosis can result in delayed speech and language.
Shapiro, L. R., Hurry, J., Masterson, J., Wydell, T. N., & Doctor, E, 2009, a study found that additional research is necessary to ascertain whether training in phonological awareness skills with older children or students at secondary schools would be as beneficial as with younger students. They believe that a greater consistency in literacy assessments across research studies will further understand of reading difficulties.
This means that you can hear the sounds of the words and convert them into letters on a page and see letters on a page and convert them into something you can hear (Jensen, 2016). Phonological processing deficits are second most common among impoverished students, next to working class memory, as this population of students tend to have poor auditory memory processing skills which leads to poor listening skills and classroom behavior (Noble, Wolmetz, Ochs, Farah, & McCandliss, 2006) as students have trouble processing sounds and words in real time. Most frequently, this leads to frustration, vocabulary difficulties, and low self-esteem. A lack of books and parent reading at home can also prohibit reading fluency and motivation (Jensen, 2016).