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[Phonological awareness therapy in the literacy process]
Giovana Romero Paula1, Helena Bolli Mota, Márcia Keske-Soares
1Fonoaudióloga, Mestre em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. giorp@via-rs.net
Background:
Phonological awareness and literacy.
Aim:
to verify the influence of phonological awareness therapy in the literacy process.
Method:
46 children were submitted to an assessment involving the reading and writing of words and non-words and of phonological awareness. The experimental group was submitted to therapy.
Results:
Therapy had a positive influence in the performance of the children in the experimental group (76.47%) regarding tasks of phonological awareness and regarding their performance in reading and writing; only literate children were able to perform tasks involving phonemic awareness.
Conclusion:
Phonological awareness therapy facilitates the acquisition of the alphabetic code.
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