Phonological processing (processing "phonemes" or the sounds of spoken language — individual syllables, combination of syllables) is a whole set of skills that operate at all sorts of levels.
- In order to diagnose one's phonological processing skills: tell me words that rhyme with “cat” (skill develops at age ~3)
- Two important skills related to this task:
- Auditory analysis (decomposing a word into its component sounds): how many syllables do you hear in banana?
- Auditory synthesis (taking individual sounds into some order that forms a word): what word am i trying to say? BUH NAN UH
- Example of phonological processing task: Elision task (which develops after school entry)
- Elie (verb) - to pull a piece out of the whole
- Task: take the word split and take the SP out of it (answer: lit) → needs both auditory analysis and synthesis
- Fundamental skill: processing stream of words (chopping spoken words into words)
- Kids who struggle with phonological skills at preschool level or 5 or 6 are likely to show LD later (single best predictor of later literacy skills)
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