Abstract

SANCHEZ CRUZ, Liana; ORDONEZ URGILES, Jennifer Andrea  and  BUSTAMANTE SALAMANCA, Mónica. Early detection of difficulties in the reading-writing process of four- year-old infants. Rev. Mendive [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.3, pp. 944-952.  Epub Sep 02, 2022. ISSN 1815-7696.

Phonological processing refers to the set of capabilities that allow operations to be carried out with linguistic units and that are closely related to learning to read and write. The objective of this article was to socialize the results of the evaluation of phonological processing for the early detection of difficulties in the reading and writing process of four-year-old in the province of Tungurahua, Ecuador. It had a quantitative approach, a descriptive and transversal design, ex post facto. The population consisted of four-year-old infants from the Huambaló parish in Tungurahua and the sample with which we worked were 20 infants who met the established inclusion and exclusion criteria, to whom the Test for the early detection of difficulties in learning to read and write. As a result, it was obtained that these infants presented slight difficulties in their phonological processing, which can negatively affect the development of the reading-writing process.

Keywords : phonological processing; dyslexia; literacy process.

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