conclusions the results may help clinicians for early intervention and focus on related components of executive function to improve the educational performance of dcd children. knowing that executive function skills are associated with these two achievement domains suggests potentiality of targeted math and spelling interventions for dcd children. results the findings showed that components of ...

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...

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...

Abnormal neurodevelopment and poor premorbid function have been described in schizophrenia. It is unclear whether abnormalities in these domains are increased in patients with early onset schizophrenia (EOS; onset before the 18th birthday) and whether they act to precipitate the earlier onset of the disorder. To address these questions, we collected information based on maternal interviews abou...

Previous research studies examining the effects of spelling and reading interventions on the spelling outcomes of students with learning disabilities (LD) are synthesized. An extensive search of the professional literature between 1995 and 2003 yielded a total of 19 intervention studies that provided spelling and reading interventions to students with LD and measured spelling outcomes. Findings...