The Development of Spelling for Children with/without Spelling Difficulties

Intervention program efficacy for spelling difficulties.

OBJECTIVE To develop an intervention procedure for spelling difficulties and to verify the effectiveness of the intervention program in students with lower spelling performance. METHOD We developed an intervention program for spelling difficulties, according to the semiology of the errors. The program consisted of three modules totaling 16 sessions. The study included 40 students of the third...

Spelling it out! Accounting for Spelling Difficulties for Arab Learners of English

Causes of Spelling Weaknesses in Students with Visual Impairment and Teaching Strategies for Spelling Improvement

Background: Spelling is characterized as a basic skill for the children’s writing literacy. A wide range of factors may contribute to the formation and/ or intensification of problems related to teaching writing competencies, so that spellings come with a serious challenge called “invented spelling”. It is also a major concern for teachers and parents of children with visual impairments. Theref...

Computer Based Spelling Remediation for Dyslexic Children: a Comparison of Rule Based and Mastery Techniques. Spelling Remediation for Dyslexic Children Spelling Remediation for Dyslexic Children

The SelfSpell programs provide a multimedia environment for dyslexic children which uses synthesised speech to augment the written text. In earlier research we established that by encouraging users to enter a rule to help them remember how to spell each word, Selfspell was very effective in improving spelling ability. The evaluation study reported here confirmed the efficacy of the rule-based a...

Neural correlates of spelling difficulties in Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with a general cognitive decline that affects the memory and language domains. Thus, an oral production deficit with a lexical-semantic origin has been widely observed in these patients. Their written production capacities, however, have been much less studied. We assessed the spelling abilities of 22 AD patients and a group of matched healthy controls wit...