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Difficulty producing speech sounds is related to deficits with literacy skills, such as phonological awareness, decoding, and spelling. Although the severity, including the number of sounds in error, is often thought to be most strongly related to poor literacy outcomes, this is not always the case. Children with even a single sound in error are at risk for educational and social impacts.

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