Brigid McNeill|Gail Gillon|Barbara Dodd
Phonological awareness and early reading development in childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
University of Canterbury|University of Canterbury|University of Queensland
childhood apraxia speech cas associated phonological awareness reading spelling deficits comparing literacy skills cas developmental speech disorders critical understanding complexity disorderthis study compared phonological awareness reading development children cas children inconsistent speech disorder isdparticipants included twelve children cas aged 47 years performance compared twelve children isd normal speech motor planning twelve children typical development tasks measuring phonological awareness lettersound knowledge real nonword decoding access underlying phonological representations words significant difference age gender socioeconomic status receptive vocabulary groups two groups speech disorder matched severity inconsistency speech impairmentthe results indicated cas group inferior phonological awareness isd typical development groups cas group greater proportion participants performing expected age level comparison groups phonological awareness lettersound knowledge decoding tasks difference performance cas isd groups phonological representation taskchildren cas particularly susceptible phonological awareness reading delay intervention children cas must facilitate skills underlying reading development addition resolving speech deficits order improve spoke written language outcomes population