When learning phonological awareness, typical children and children with developmental delays can benefit from instructional sup
ports such as... a. concrete objects to move around when manipulating words
b. gestures learned to represent specific manipulations of words
c. images of the words being manipulated
d. all of the above
All of the above can help children improve their phonological awareness.
Using concrete objects like toy letters can enable the kid know how to better move letters around to pronounce certain words.
Gestures learned to represent the manipulation of some words will also help the child develope phonological awareness by relating those gestures to other words.
Finally, visually aiding the child by showing the images of words being manipulated can be beneficial as well because they will learn to associate new words with the right sounds and pronounce them as they should.
