The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children Ability of Phoneme Analysis

Abstract

: The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children Ability of Phoneme Analysis. A woman, who drinks alcohol while pregnant, puts her child in risk of numerous birth defects that can negatively affect a child’s cognition, physical growth and behavior over the lifespan. It is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – FAS. Among all those dysfunctions, there are hearing problems which occur as disor ders of phonematic hearing and phonematic analysis which result in improper executive function ing. The deficits in executive functioning can lead to real-life implications for the people. According to literature, children’s ability to operate with phonemes should develop with age. Approximately sixty per cent of six-year-old children and almost all ten-year-old children successfully perform pho neme analysis. Undoubtedly this ability is strongly connected with reading and writing, which are basic skills for school children. However, studies on FAS children show that only twenty per cent of six year olds and fifty per cent of ten year olds can manage with the task of phoneme operations. It is a natural consequence of the children’s problems with memorizing the sounds and linear order of words. The children’s failure in developing the skill of phoneme analysis leads to dysfunctions in reading and writing. Abstract : A woman who drinks alcohol while being pregnant puts her child at risk of numerous birth defects that can negatively affect a child’s cognition, physical growth and behaviour. It is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – FAS. Among all these dysfunctions, hearing problems might occur, includ ing the disorders of phonematic hearing and phonematic analysis which result in improper execu tive functioning. The deficits in executive functioning can lead to real-life implications. According to studies, the children’s ability to operate phonemes should develop with age. Approximately sixty per cent of six-year-old children and almost all ten-year-old children successfully perform phoneme analysis. Undoubtedly, this ability is strongly connected with reading and writing, that is, the basic skills for school children. However, studies on FAS children show that only twenty per cent of six-year-olds and fifty per cent of ten-year-olds can manage the task of phoneme operations. It is a natu ral consequence of the problems with memorising sounds and the linear order of words. This failure in developing the skill of phoneme analysis in children leads to dysfunctions in reading and writing.