Exam 11: Phonological Awareness: Description, Assessment, and Intervention

The alphabetic principle refers to the systematic relationships that exist between:

A child's ability to manipulate phonemes is an example of:

Intervention for phonological awareness for children with SSD should encompass three main areas in order to achieve reading success:

The words "cape" and "cane" are examples that can be used to test what phonological awareness skill?

Phonological awareness assessments can be used to establish phonological awareness skills, determine contributing factors to reading difficulties, and:

Working on phonological awareness is helpful for reading skills, but working on speech sound production alone will also improve phonological awareness skills.

Although phonological awareness develops along a continuum, discuss the skills that would be expected to develop first, next, and last.

Dynamic assessments allow for multiple levels of:

Phonological awareness should be targeted in preschool only.

Jenny is a fourth grade girl who has been in speech therapy for a speech sound disorder since Kindergarten. Her teacher tells you that Jenny struggles with spelling and basic decoding. These struggles are really holding Jenny back from progressing in the fourth grade curriculum, since most of it requires reading to learn. You begin to incorporate some phonological awareness activities into your intervention sessions. You notice that Jenny struggles with all levels of phonological awareness abilities including rhyming). Is it appropriate to work on phonological awareness with this student? Why or why not? Answers to

What are three things parents can do at home to foster phonological awareness in preschool children?

An alliteration activity that requires children to pay attention to the initial phoneme in the word, produce the initial phoneme in the word correctly, and identify the letter that corresponds to the phoneme is a good example of phonological awareness treatment for children with SSD.

The ability to segment a multi-syllablic word into is respective syllables is an example of:

Norm-referenced phonological awareness assessments may not take into account a child's speech sound disorder, therefore it's helpful to assess phonological awareness using:

Collaboration between SLP and classroom teachers can cause confusion regarding the best way to foster children's phonological awareness abilities.

What are the three prevalent models of phonological awareness intervention?

Preschool aged children should be taught phonological awareness to a mastery level.

You have been referred a new 6-year-old first grade student, Ruthie, for a possible speech sound disorder. After a comprehensive assessment, you determine that Ruthie has a moderate articulation disorder as evidenced by difficulty with the following phonemes: /k, g, f, v, l, s, z/. Ruthie seems to have good phonological awareness - she can rhyme and identify the first phoneme in most words. Her teacher reports that she struggles in class with early literacy tasks. What other assessments might you do and what would be your next step with Ruthie?

Criterion referenced assessments, compared to norm-referenced assessments, are more:

Awareness of rhyme tends to develop around the time that children can: