**11. Child 1's profile on the phonic inventories**

Two of the three levels of the phonic inventories were administered, and error analysis was conducted. Child 1's profile indicated that short vowel sounds were established, but there were high error scores on:


Overall, Child 1's pattern of errors on the phonic inventories provided evidence of both phonological and phonic difficulties. A high incidence of errors on ending consonant blends on this instrument [208, 215–218] is associated with learning disabilities. Number of medial vowel digraph errors is also an indicator of learning disability both in primary school age children [219–221] and high school children [222].

The profile of errors on the instrument was thus used as corroborating evidence of the presence of a learning disability. The profile was also analysed to identify specific phonic errors and error types which could be targeted for instruction [223, 224].
