conclusions however, performances of dyslexic group and reading level matched group were different and inconsistent in some cases. results this study found similar spelling error profiles among the dyslexic students and the reading-level-matched group, and these profiles were different from those of the age-matched group. however, the performances of the dyslexic group and the reading-level-mat...

In this study, two nonword spelling and two orthographic awareness experiments were used to examine people’s production and awareness of sound–spelling relationships. The results of the nonword spelling experiments suggest that, in general, people use phoneme–grapheme sized relationships when spelling nonwords. Alternatively, the results of the orthographic awareness experiments suggest that, u...

The paper presents a descriptive account of a Morphological Processing Spelling Approach (MPSA), which substitutes a more conventional spelling instruction, proposed for developing primary school students’ metamorphological knowledge and strategies in English as a foreign language. For the application of the MPSA, seven dictation texts were carefully designed by the researchers, each one includ...

This study aims to explain teachers' efforts in overcoming reading learning difficulties grade II students of Gonda State Elementary School, Baubau City. type research is qualitative with descriptive methods. The subjects used were teachers, 23 consisting 11 female and 12 male students. method or technique data collection observation, interview, documentation. Data analysis carried out by reduc...

For students, academic writing is a must skill to be honed achieve good grades from teachers and majority novice learners commit errors in spellings. Such students with spelling lag behind other peers. In this paper we present method which aims improve the of children dyslexia through playful targeted exercises. Manual correction involves person manually checking correcting misspelled words. Au...

Citation: Farquharson K (2015) Language or motor: reviewing categorical etiologies of speech sound disorders. Children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) exhibit marked weakness with accurate production of age-appropriate speech sounds (Lewis et al., 2006). For some of these children, the etiology of the SSD is clear (e.g., cleft palate, a genetic syndrome, or hearing loss). For others, the cau...

The paper reports the results of two studies on the spelling performance of 1st graders in a transparent writing system. The spelling performance of Italian children was assessed to determine the cross-task relationship between spelling to dictation and spontaneous spelling at the single word level (Study 1) and at the text level (Study 2), respectively. In study 1, 132 Italian children's spell...

Abstract Children who struggle with writing are a heterogeneous group and may experience difficulties in range of domains, including spelling, reading, oral language. These reflected their influence responsiveness to interventions. The effectiveness targeted sentence-combining intervention improve the skills 71 struggling writers, aged 7 10 years, was compared spelling business as usual (waitin...