An Alliteration Activity That Requires Children to Pay Attention to the Initial

question 12

True/False

An alliteration activity that requires children to pay attention to the initial phoneme in the word, produce the initial phoneme in the word correctly, and identify the letter that corresponds to the phoneme is a good example of phonological awareness treatment for children with SSD.

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Definitions:

Automatization

The process by which a skill becomes automatic with practice, requiring less conscious thought and effort to perform.

Spreading Activation

A mechanism within associative networks that explains how information is retrieved in the brain, where thinking about one concept activates related concepts.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment in which participants decide as quickly as possible whether a given string of letters is a real word or a non-word.

Spreading Activation

A method in cognitive science that explains how information is retrieved in the human brain, suggesting ideas in memory are connected and that activating one idea naturally leads to the activation of related ideas.