Typically developing (TD) children, as young as four years of age, have demonstrated enhanced noun learning when orthographic representations are presented during learning tasks. This dissertation investigated the impact of orthographic support on word learning in diverse populations, focusing on children from a variety of clinical categories…

Reading difficulties are the most common cause of academic failure and underachievement (International Dyslexic Association, 2012). Over the last half century, the Orton-Gillingham approach has been an influential intervention designed expressly for remediating the language processing problems of children and adults with dyslexia. The purpose of…