“La estimulación temprana y su influencia en el desarrollo de la conciencia fonológica en los niños de 4 años de la escuela de educación básica “La Granja" Ceblag”

Abstract

The present research “Early stimulation and its influence in phonological awareness development in 4-year-old children in basic education school “La Granja” CEBLAG” determines the importance of language development in children in order to guarantee the communication and also to prevent disabilities associated to its lack of stimulation. This research assess 37 kids throughout a pretest known as phonological awareness evaluation test, from them, 7 kids got a phonological awareness development lower than the normal range as a presumptive diagnosis showed, so they were selected to apply an early stimulation treatment plan to develop syllabic and phonemic awareness. According to syllabic awareness pretest just one child is inside of the normal range, the same that represents 14.29%, at the end of treatment plan it increased to 100%; a similar result was got in phonemic awareness sub test, which showed an increase from 17.43% to 100%. To analyze the final results Student’s t-test was used and it revealed that early stimulation has a positive impact on 4 year-old children´s phonological awareness development.