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Phonological awareness abilities of individuals after speech therapy
Helena Bolli Mota1, Maria das Graças de Campos Melo Filha
1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. helenabolli@hotmail.com
Background:
phonological awareness abilities of children with a history of speech-language disorders.
Aim:
to compare the phonological awareness abilities of individuals who recovered from phonological disorders after having gone through speech-language treatment with that of individuals with typical phonological development.
Method:
participants of this study were eighteen individuals, nine in the experimental group and nine in the control group. Both groups had their phonological awareness abilities evaluated through the Metalinguistic Sequential Evaluation Instrument Confias.
Results:
significant statistical differences were observed between the groups in terms of the following performances: rhyme identification, rhyme production, syllable exclusion, on all of the activities involving syllables and on the activities involving phoneme exclusion, phoneme segmentation, and phoneme transposition, on all of the activities involving phonemes and also on all of the activities involving phonological awareness. The control group presented a better performance in all of the activities.
Conclusions:
even after speech therapy the experimental group presented a worse performance in terms of the phonological awareness abilities.
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