title: [Phonological awareness therapy in the literacy process].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Phonological awareness and literacy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to verify the influence of phonological awareness therapy in the literacy process.
  
  
  METHODS
  46 children were submitted to an assessment involving the reading and writing of words and non-words and of phonological awareness. The experimental group was submitted to therapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Therapy had a positive influence in the performance of the children in the experimental group (76.47%) regarding tasks of phonological awareness and regarding their performance in reading and writing; only literate children were able to perform tasks involving phonemic awareness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Phonological awareness therapy facilitates the acquisition of the alphabetic code.
authors.affiliation: Fonoaudióloga, Mestre em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. giorp@via-rs.net
authors.forename: Giovana Romero
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Paula
authors.forename: Helena Bolli
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.forename: Márcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keske-Soares
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014956:Writing