1. The authors of the case study, Strattman and Hodson, discuss the effects of expressive phonological impairments on literacy development, including effects on phonological awareness skills, decoding, and vocabulary. Think through and describe how phonological speech sound errors would/could affect each of these three areas. (You might need to look up the definitions of “phonological awareness” and “decoding.”)
• Phonological awareness: This aspect of literacy requires the understanding and knowledge of the relationship between graphemes and phonemes. If a child has a phonological impairment, they are not likely to be able to identify and manipulate the sounds through tasks such as rhyming or syllable/sound segmentation.
• Decoding: This …show more content…
As therapy progressed, how were speech sound production issues and literacy issues addressed simultaneously in therapy?
The SLP would use multisyllabic words from the stories and have the clients segment them by syllables using felt squares. Letter tiles were also used to reinforce spelling and to have the clients become more aware of a syllable deletions and sound errors. After the problem was identified, the clinician would have the clients produce the correct syllable and then say the whole word correctly.

6. While reading comprehension isn’t the focus of this class, list a few of the reading comprehension strategies that you might want to use in the future with clients.
• Identification of story grammar elements (e.g., character, setting, problem, and resolution) within story o Have client answer questions, compare stories, and retell stories using story grammar elements
• Graphic and visual organizers to analyze stories (e.g., Venn diagram)
• Identification of elements – topic, main idea, and