Phonological Awareness and Orthographic Skills -A Comparative Study between Typically Developing Vs Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Tamil Speaking Children

Abstract :

The present study aims in comparing typically developing vs attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Tamil speaking children in their Phonological awareness and orthographic skills. A standardized test tool on phonological awareness and orthographic principles (Akila & Prema, 2000) was administered, on 20 children out of which 10 typically developing & 10 ADHD children, (5 girls & 5 boys in each group), studying in grade III & grade IV from regular school. Both groups showed that the order of acquisition that is rhyming task was the earliest followed by syllable deletion, syllable oddity, syllable reversal, phoneme oddity and phoneme deletion. Both groups found phoneme tasks difficult than the syllable tasks.

Author Name : Akila Palani & Kala Dhanavendan

Keywords: ADHD, Phonological awareness, Orthography.


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