Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Communicating

by Courtenay Norbury DPhil

simplifications that are common in young children’s speech.) Phonological processing includes phonological awareness (skills such as the ability to detect rhymes, number of syllables, and first/last sounds in words), rapid automatic naming (such as, saying the days of the week quickly), and phonological memory (seen in the ability to repeat unfamiliar nonsense words).