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When Sound Awareness Breaks Down: How to Spot It & How SLPs Help In our last post, “Sound Power: Building Your Child’s Ear for Reading,” we explored how phonemic awareness is the very first foundation of reading. It’s the step that teaches children to hear the sounds inside words — before they ever match those sounds to print. But what happens when a child can’t hear those differences clearly?What happens when blending, segmenting, or manipulating sounds feels confusing or