Sarah Masso|Sharynne McLeod|Elise Baker|Jane McCormack
Polysyllable productions in preschool children with speech sound disorders: Error categories and the Framework of Polysyllable Maturity
Charles Sturt University|Charles Sturt University|University of Sydney|Charles Sturt University|University of Sheffield
purpose children speech sound disorders ssd find polysyllables difficult however routine sampling measurement speech accuracy insufficient describe polysyllable accuracy maturity study two aims 1 compare two speech production tasks 2 describe polysyllable errors within framework polysyllable maturitymethod ninetythree preschool children ssd sound start study 4055 years completed polysyllable preschool test pop diagnostic evaluation articulation phonology deapphonologyresult vowel accuracy significantly different pop deapphonology polysyllables analysed using seven wordlevel analysis polysyllables wap error categories 1 substitution consonants vowels 978 children demonstrated common use 2 deletion syllables consonants vowels 656 3 distortion consonants vowels 00 4 addition consonants vowels 00 5 alteration phonotactics 774 6 alteration timing 634 7 assimilation alteration sequence 00 framework polysyllable maturity described five levels maturity based childrens errorsconclusions polysyllable productions preschool children ssd analysed categorised using wap interpreted using framework polysyllable maturity