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Phonological disorders in children: Changes in phonological process use during treatment
Author(s) -
Dodd Barbara,
Lacano Teresa
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828909019894
Subject(s) - phonological disorder , phonological rule , psychology , phonology , phonological development , consonant , phonological awareness , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , linguistics , literacy , medicine , vowel , pedagogy , philosophy
Unintelligible speech in childhood is often characterised by the use of unusual or deviant (i.e. non‐developmental) phonological processes, e.g. initial consonant deletion. These processes are reported to appear at speech onset and to undergo little spontaneous change during the preschool years. The study reported here documents the changes that occurred in the phonological systems of seven phonologically disordered children during remediation that targeted unusual phonological processes. Qualitative changes in phonological process use were observed for all children. Six of the children made quantitative improvement in terms of the percentage consonants produced correctly in spontaneous speech. Individual differences in phonological learning strategy use are described.