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Title: Patterns of generalisation after treating sub-lexical spelling deficits in a child with mixed dysgraphia
Related: Journal of research in reading, Vol. 31, Issue 1, p.157-177
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2007.00366.x
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy 170103 Educational Psychology
Author/Creator: Kohnen, Saskia
Author/Creator: Nickels, Lyndsey
Author/Creator: Brunsdon, Ruth
Author/Creator: Coltheart, Max
Description: This paper presents a treatment study with a developmental dysgraphic girl, KM, and addresses the mechanisms by which orthographic learning of spelling rules might occur. Before treatment, KM's spelling of words and nonwords was impaired. Analyses of spelling errors indicated poor knowledge of sound-to-letter correspondences. Treatment focused on two spelling rules and was successful: spelling improved for both regular words and nonwords. Untrained words that included the training rules also improved, but later than nonwords and trained words. This delayed generalisation was explained through feedback mechanisms between orthographic lexicon and graphemic buffer.
Description: 21 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Subject Keyword: 170103 Educational Psychology
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

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