The effectiveness of a communication training program to develop ‎linguistic awareness and its impact on performance phonetic errors in a ‎sample of students with developmental phonological disorder

The study aimed at the effectiveness of a communication training program to develop linguistic awareness and its impact on performance phonetic errors in a sample of students with developmental phonological disorder. The research was applied to a sample of (20) fourth-grade primary school students with developmental phonological disorder who are enrolled in primary schools in the New Valley Governorate. The study sample was randomly divided into two equal groups, the first experimental group with (10) students, including five males and five females, and the second control group (10) including eight males and five females. The current study tools included a linguistic awareness scale, a developmental phonological disorder scale, and a communication training program for linguistic awareness (16 sessions), all of which were prepared by the researcher. The results of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the control group and the experimental group in linguistic awareness and performance phonetic errors in favor of the experimental group. The results also showed that there were no differences between the post- and follow-up measurements, which indicates the continuity of the program's effect in improving linguistic awareness and its positive effect on Eliminating performance phonetic errors in a sample of students with developmental phonological disorders. The study recommended the necessity of training in language awareness skills in speech disorders programs due to its positive effect in eliminating language disorders.