Investigation of Rapid Naming and Language Skills in Children With Speech Sound Disorders

What is already known on this subject It is known that children diagnosed with speech sound disorders (SSDs) are at a markedly elevated risk of encountering language and reading difficulties during their school years. What this paper adds to the existing knowledge Retaining speech sounds in a child's language is also an integral part of phonological awareness. Rapid naming skills, which are an indicator of phonological processing skills, are very important. The fact that children with phonological disorders have a longer mean time in rapid naming skills indicates that these children have more difficulty accessing phonological representations from long-term memory. In addition, children with phonological disorders were found to have lower picture vocabulary, relational vocabulary, and morphological completion performances. What are the potential or clinical implications of this work? Professionals should integrate phonological processing into speech production interventions to strengthen their knowledge of functional language performance and rapid naming skills of children with SSDs and to pave the way for later reading success.