Phonological Processes in Tamil Speaking Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract:

The present study aimed at identifying phonological processes in Tamil speaking children with Cerebral Palsy. Twenty Cerebral palsied Tamil speaking children, age ranged from 3.5 years to 16 years (13-Males, 7- Females) participated in the present study. All the children were screened by the extended Receptive and Expressive Emergent Language Scale to see the language age. These children were divided into 4 groups with 5 children in each group divided in one year interval. Totally 160 meaningful di-syllabic and tri-syllabic words in combination of 18 consonants, 10 vowels and two dipthongs in initial, medial and final positions were used to assess. Results revealed that thirty nine phonological processes were observed in cerebral palsied children. The present study identified that the substitution processes was the highest occurrence than other processes. Although the processes and occurrence of the process was found to decreased with increase in language age group.

Author Name : Kala Dhanavendan & Dr. R. Lalitha Raja

Keywords: Phonological processes, Cerebral Palsy, Consonants, Vowels.