Phonological Processing

Phonological Processing

Phonological Processing is the processing of Speech Sounds as opposed to all sounds. If we cannot distinguish different phonemes, which are single speech sounds, very well, we cannot readily separate them. This leads to inaccurate spelling such as, ‘split’ spelt as ‘spit’. Reading becomes slow and imprecise and so no strong memory is placed for accurate recall. Think of poor Percy in 1896, ‘words, written, make no impression on his mind’. We have to assimilate phonemes accurately to replay them accurately. ‘Rapid Naming’ simply means how quickly we name things and in terms of the diagnosis of Dyslexia we go back to the basics and assess the speed of the individual’s reading of both letters and digits. Go back to the third paragraph and read the description of Dyslexia used by the British Dyslexia Association in 2007, it includes Rapid Naming difficulties. The most consistent deficit in all my own assessment score profiles of people assessed as being Dyslexic is below average reading of non-sequential letters, which is described as Rapid Letter Naming, because their long term recall of the sounds is slow and misfires with the precise timing mechanism required to link the sound of a letter to its image.