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Training phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome

Burgoyne, K; Duff, F; Snowling, M; Buckley, S; Hulme, C; (2013) Training phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome. CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING & THERAPY , 29 (3) 273 - 290. 10.1177/0265659012474674. Green open access

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Abstract

This article reports the evaluation of a 6-week programme of teaching designed to support the development of phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome (DS). Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver the intervention to individual children in daily 10 –15-minute sessions, within a broader context of reading and language instruction. Ten children with Down syndrome (aged 6 years 11 months to 10 years 6 months) took part in the study; assessments of reading and phonological skills were completed at baseline, after an 8-week control period, and after 6-weeks of intervention. Children made significantly greater gains in phoneme blending skills and single word reading during the intervention period than in the control period. Thus, children with Down syndrome can make gains in blending skills, which may generalize to wider literacy skills, following targeted training over relatively short periods.

Type: Article
Title: Training phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0265659012474674
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265659012474674
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2013. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
Keywords: Blending, Down syndrome, intervention, phonological awareness, reading
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1424006
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