Copying skills in children with and without dyslexia
| Autor: | Elise Blampain, Marie Van Reybroeck, Claire Gosse |
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| Přispěvatelé: | UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language
copying behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Psycholinguistics Education Task (project management) Speech and Hearing spelling Handwriting Copying Processes dyslexia mental disorders medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Copying 05 social sciences Dyslexia 050301 education medicine.disease Gaze Spelling gaze lifts Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Psychology 0503 education psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology handwriting |
| Zdroj: | Reading and Writing : an interdisciplinary journal, (2020) |
| Popis: | While copying skills are used daily at school and involve spelling abilities, studies examining copying performance in children with dyslexia are very scarce. The present study aims to determine whether children with dyslexia present a specific deficit in their copying processes or if their difficulties in copying are a consequence of their spelling deficit. Nineteen children with dyslexia were compared to two groups of typically developing children: 19 chronological age matched children and 19 spelling age matched children. All children were asked to perform a copying task of 40 words, varying in orthographic complexity. This task was scored on spelling accuracy, handwriting quality and speed, and gaze lifts. Our main results showed that children with dyslexia do have difficulties in copying. They made more spelling errors than their age-matched peers, despite the model provided by the task. Gaze lift analyses revealed that children with dyslexia used different copying strategies compared to their classmates. Globally, children with dyslexia seem to behave like younger children, suggesting that their difficulties arise from their spelling deficit. These findings may have practical implications. Given that children with dyslexia face copying difficulties, one possible way to help them could be to enable them to improve their copying strategies, and not just their spelling skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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