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Volume 22:1 January 2022
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Urdu-Speaking Boy of 7 years with Developmental Phonological Disorder

Aneesa Farooq, Research Scholar

Abstract

This paper attempts to study a case of a 7-year-old boy, ‘M’, with Developmental Phonological Disorder (DPD). M is a monolingual Urdu-speaking child. The speech of M was analyzed by using Picture Naming Tasks and Non-word Repetition Tasks. The result showed that his phonological impairment is severe and systematic in nature. The case study is presented in five sections: primer on developmental phonological disorder, case history, speech assessment, assessment issues, and speech evaluation.

Keywords: Urdu-speaking, Developmental Disorder, Speech, Phonological Disorder

Primer on Developmental Phonological Disorder

Developmental Phonological Disorder (DPD) is one of the subtypes of Speech Sound Disorders. DPD occurs when a child’s speech errors are based on the implicit rules of a language (e.g., stopping, fronting, final consonant deletion) despite the ability to produce those sounds correctly in other contexts. One of the examples of DPD is the deletion of lateral sound at the word-final position. A child may be able to say the lateral phoneme /l/ as in leaf, lion, or lip but not in bell, feel or pill; despite the ability to produce the phoneme at the beginning of the word, the child does not produce the same phoneme at the end of the word.

DPD exists without any identifiable aetiology. However, the learning environment is thought to be a default explanation and the genetic explanation has provided an alternative account. Recent research, in addition, suggests that impairment in phonological working memory is considered to underlie the phonological disorder in children as it underlies the creation of phonological representation. Furthermore, the literature studies revealed that children with palatal cleft are at the highest risk of phonological disorder.

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Aneesa Farooq, Research Scholar
University of Kashmir
aneesafruk@gmail.com
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