Phonological Impairment Summary And Analysis

As reported speech and language disorders have statistically risen to be the most prevalent developmental condition throughout early childhood, the need for intervention and therapeutic methods have increased over the past few years (Vellutino, Fletcher, Snowling, & Scanlon, 2004). Communication is the imparting or interchange of opinions and thoughts, and for a variety of reasons is the key component in building and maintaining social relationships (Harris et al, 2011). Speech itself requires precise coordination of the oral, pharyngeal and respiratory muscles; impairment in these fields can typically result in a speech disorder (Slices et al, 2007). Alternatively, a phonological impairment or disorder typically emphasizes problems resulting from delays in the maturation of the underlying phonological system. While many young children outgrow this difficulty many endure prolonged impairment, with a number of theorists proposing a correlation to be apparent between phonological impairment and early literacy development (Vellutino, Fletcher, Snowling, & Scanlon, 2004). The …show more content…
The process of reading itself encompasses the fluid coordination of many component skills, with many reading difficulties being interrelated with deficits in phonetic and phonemic awareness. Moreover, phonological disorders often affect the phonemic level of representation and are characterized by difficulty in organizing speech sounds into phonemic contrasts (Olson et al, 1989). A number of data suggests a strong compatible causal relationship between phonological processing ability and literacy development, proposing children’s knowledge of the phonological structure of language and sound analysis tasks to be a key and excellent predictor of early reading ability and acquisition (Harris et al,