Phonological Skills in children with Hearing impairment

Abstract

All humans are born with the innate ability to learn language (Troike, 2006). Language is defined as a complex system which can be best explained by breaking it down into its functional components form, content and use (Bloom and Lahey, 1978). newline Form encompasses the combination of sounds and symbols in order and it includes phonology, morphology and syntax. Content encompasses meaning or semantics and use is also termed as pragmatics. These five components phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are the basic rule systems of the language. Specifically coming to phonology it denotes to the sound systems of a language, including both articulatory-phonetic and cognitive-linguistic components (Gordon-Brannan and Weiss, 2007). This is sometimes extended to include all aspects of speech sounds, including speech perception and production, as well as cognitive and motor aspects of speech (Stoel-Gammon and Dunn, 1985 cited in Ayyad, 2011). newline