Table 2 Results of the Phonological Awareness Test scores
Phonological Awareness Test | Patients (n = 30) number (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
< 5th percentile | At 5th percentilea | > 5th percentile | |
1. Segmenting sentence into words | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
2. Blending syllables into words | 17 (56.7%) | 10 (33.3%) | 3 (10.0%) |
3. Segmenting words into syllables | 22 (73.3%) | 5 (16.7%) | 3 (10.0%) |
4. Isolating initial phonemes | 17 (56.7%) | 13 (43.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
5. Isolating final phonemes | 22 (73.3%) | 8 (26.7%) | 0 (0.0%) |
6. Isolating middle phonemes | 22 (73.3%) | 8 (26.7%) | 0 (0.0%) |
7. Blending onsets and rimes into words | 21 (70.0%) | 9 (30.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
8. Segmenting words into onsets and rimes | 21 (70.0%) | 7 (23.3%) | 2 (3.3%) |
9. Blending individual phonemes into words | 25 (83.3%) | 4 (13.3%) | 1 (3.3%) |
10. Segmenting words into phonemes | 22 (73.3%) | 7 (23.3%) | 1 (3.3%) |
11. Recognizing rhyming words | 19 (63.3%) | 11 (36.7%) | 0 (0.0%) |
12. Generating rhyming words | 20 (66.7%) | 10 (33.3%) | 1 (3.3%) |
13. Deleting initial phonemes | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
14. Deleting final phonemes | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
15. Deleting middle phonemes | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
16. Substituting initial phonemes | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
17. Substituting final phonemes | 27 (90.0%) | 3 (10.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
18. Substituting middle phonemes | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
19. Phoneme grapheme correspondence | 26 (86.7%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
20. Producing multisyllabic words | 27 (90.0%) | 3 (10.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
Total score: | |||
mean ± SD | 35.7 ± 31.5 | ||
median (range) | 29.8 (0–115) | ||