Neuropsychological significance of phonetically accurate and phonetically inaccurate spelling errors in younger and older retarded spellers |
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Authors: | James E Sweeney Byron P Rourke |
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Institution: | University of Windsor and Windsor Western Hospital Centre Canada |
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Abstract: | The performances of two groups of retarded spellers (who were equated with respect to the level of deficient performance in spelling, but who differed in the level of phonetic accuracy of their misspellings) at two different age levels were compared to those of normal spellers who had been matched for age and WISC Performance IQ with the retarded spelling groups. The results indicated very marked differences in a number of linguistic skills between the normal spellers and the retarded spellers whose misspellings were characterized by phonetic inaccuracy. The performances of the retarded spellers who produced a preponderance of phonetically accurate misspellings differed markedly from those of the normal spellers only when the task demands involved fairly complex linguistic-cognitive operations. For the most part, the differences among the three groups were in evidence only at the older age level studied. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to: James E Sweeney Department of Neuropsychology Windsor Western Hospital Centre 1453 Prince Road Windsor Ontario CanadaN9C 3Z4 |
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