INCORPORATING METAPHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

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INCORPORATING METAPHONOLOGICALAWARENESS

• INTO THERAPY FOR ARICULATORY/PHONOLOGICAL
  DISORDERS

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I. DEFINITION

• Hodson (2008) prefers the term metaphonological
  awareness
• Metaphonology is defined as the ability to
  reflect on and pay attention to the phonological
  structure of language
• Metaphonology activities are designed to increase
  skills in such areas as rhyming, syllable
  segmentation, and sound blending

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Many unintelligible children

• Also have metaphonological awareness deficits
  (Hodson, 2008)
• Young children with severe phonological disorders
  are especially vulnerable to reading, writing,
  and spelling problems later in childhood

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II. METAPHON THERAPY

• This is designed to enhance childrens
  metaphonological awareness skills
• This type of therapy assumes that the childrens
  difficulties dont lie in motor production of
  sounds, but in the acquisition of the rules of
  the phonological system

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Metaphon therapy

• Is often used with preschool children who have
  moderate-severe phonological disorders
• It focuses on feature differences between sounds
  to help children develop an awareness that sounds
  can be classified by characteristics

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These characteristics include

• Place (e.g., front-back)
• Noise (noisy vs. quiet sounds)
• Duration (long vs. short)

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III. ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE METAPHONOLOGICAL
AWARENESS

• Label sounds according to features (e.g., /th/ is
  a tongue cooler /p/ is a lip popper)
• Associate sounds with animals (/r/ is the tiger
  sound)

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• Segmenting syllables (how many syllables per
  word)
• Segmenting sounds ( of sounds per word)
• Phoneme isolation (1st/last sound in a word)

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• Structured readingLook and listen for the ___
  sound
• Recognize rhyming words
• Sound blending (e.g., c-a-t what word is that?)

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• Spoonerisms (Prinderella and the Cince)
• Delete sounds/syllables (say turkey without
  the tur ).

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I believe

• That we can use metaphonological awareness
  activities even with children who just have 1-2
  sounds in error