BACKGROUND: phonological deviations in elementary school. PROCEDURES: analyzing the phonetic approach based on the ranking of distinctive features and on phonological awareness in a population of children with phonological deviations, students of elementary school. RESULTS: with the analysis of the information, we noted a great predominance simplification of liquids process, simplification of consonant cluster and simplification of final coda. Speech therapy took place, in which a child did not just get to overcome the difficulties found previously in the process of phonological organization, still presenting absence of distinctive trace in the system. CONCLUSION: the phonetic approach to phonological deviation based the ranking of distinctive features and on phonological awareness expanded the phonetic inventory and those children's phonological system, improving the recruiting between the phonemes and the performance of the abilities concerning manipulation speech sounds, consequently providing speech intelligibility.
Language Development; Phonetics; Speech Therapy
