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How do phonological awareness skills develop?
How do phonological awareness skills develop?
Children begin to develop phonological awareness from birth and continue throughout childhood. However, the majority of phonological development occurs between the ages of 3 and 8 years.
The following table details the expected age which particular phonological awareness skills develop:
Phonological awareness difficulties
Phonological awareness difficulties
A child may have poor phonological awareness skills for a number of reasons. This could be
environmental (exposure to reading, nursery rhymes etc)
genetic (family history of Dyslexia)
physical (such as hearing difficulties)
or occur as part of a wider communication difficulty.
A child with poor phonological awareness may have difficulties in any of the areas relating to:
rhyme (identification and generation)
syllables (blending, identifying, manipulating)
sounds (identification, blending, manipulating)
A difficulty in developing phonological awareness skills has consequences on developing literacy skills. Therefore, a child with poor phonological awareness may present with specific difficulties with learning to read and spell. Specific difficulties with the production and use of speech sounds may also occur in combination with phonological awareness issues. Phonological awareness skills can be targeted at any age.
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