Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Receptive Language

Short description

Phonological Awareness Strategy is a technique addressing phonological awareness that impacts the patients understand of speech sounds, reading and spelling skills (Stanovich, 1988, Snow, Burns, & Griffen, 1998, Van Kleeck, et al 1998, Wing, 1990).

Long description

Phonological Awareness Strategy is a technique addressing phonological awareness, which is defined as: The explicit knowledge of, awareness of, or sensitivity to the phonological structure of language; skills used to think about, compare, and manipulate sounds in words. Rhyming and phoneme awareness activities are used in therapy sessions. Phoneme awareness activities include: initial sound identification, generating initial sounds, and identify initial and final sounds (Stanovich, 1988, Snow, Burns, & Griffen, 1998, Van Kleeck, et al 1998, Wing, 1990).