Spelling problems after early oral language difficulties

Recent research has stated that early oral language acquisition difficultiesare related to reading and writing difficulties. Children with developmentallanguage disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with several dimensions of lan-guage. In this study we focus on the specific difficulties of childre...

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Autores: Buil-Legaz, Lucía, Suárez-Coalla, Paz, Santamarina Rabanal, Liliana, Martínez-García, Cristina, Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier, Cuetos, Fernando
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/151362
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/151362
https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12819
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:language problems
spelling
writing
Spanish
oral difficulties
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Resumo:Recent research has stated that early oral language acquisition difficultiesare related to reading and writing difficulties. Children with developmentallanguage disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with several dimensions of lan-guage. In this study we focus on the specific difficulties of children with DLD inspelling. We examine the impact of lexicality and length in written productionof Spanish-speaking children with DLD. A total of 18 children with languagedifficulties (Mage = 8;4) were compared with age-matched children (Mage =8;2). Participants completed a spelling-to-dictation task of words and pseudo-words, where length was manipulated. A digital tablet was used to collect dataand obtain measures of accuracy, latencies and total writing durations. Resultsshowed that children with DLD produced more errors, longer latencies andlonger writing durations than age-matched children. Regarding accuracy, analy-sis of the errors shows that children in the control group produce few errors, mostbeing substitutions, while children with DLD made more errors and of more var-ied categories. Moreover, they were more affected by length on writing accuracythan the control group.