ظاهرة الإبدال عند أطفال التوحد : دراسة لسانية تطبيقية

Abstract EN

Phonemic Substitution is the replacement of one sound by another for some reason.

This phenomenon exists in some Arabic dialects and in some people suffering from speech disorders as well as in children, who substitute sounds because their speech organs are not yet fully developed or due to some psychological problems.

This paper addresses the last case, specifically with autistic children.

Autism is a mental and behavioural disorder in children, one of whose symptoms is speech disorders.

The behavioural disorder is the ground for the speech disorder, since autistic children always tend to avoid any activity that causes them to exert any efforts, including the pronunciation of some difficult sounds.

Thus, they tend to substitute them with other, lighter and easier sounds in terms of voice, strength, length, friction, etc.

It is a field study conducted in some autism centres in Basra.

The study comes up with some conclusions as well as a description of those phenomena that endanger the society, especially in the age of mass communication, which is itself one of causes behind the spread of autism.