Jonathan L. Preston|Mary Louise Edwards
Phonological Awareness and Types of Sound Errors in Preschoolers With Speech Sound Disorders
Haskins Laboratories|Syracuse University
purpose children speech sound disorders ssd difficulty literacyrelated skills particularly phonological awareness pa study investigates pa skills preschoolers ssd using regression model evaluate degree pa concurrently predicted types speech sound errors method preschoolers ssd n 43 participated pa speech sound production assessment errors 125item picture naming task coded 2 ways considering consonant errors equally percentage consonants correct pcc b using 3category system captures component features sound errors typical sound changes atypical sound changes distortions pa tasks included rhyme matching onset matching onset segmentation matching blending results variance pa composite score could predicted partly vocabulary age 33 atypical sound changes accounted additional 6 variance pa distortions typical errors account significant variance consonant errors analyzed using pcc speech errors predict significant variance pa conclusions poorer pa associated lower receptive vocabularies atypical sound errors results interpreted context accuracy phonological representations