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Buil-Legaz, Lucía; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Santamarina-Rabanal, Liliana; Martínez-García, Cristina; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier; Cuetos, Fernando – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Recent research has stated that early oral language acquisition difficulties are related to reading and writing difficulties. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with several dimensions of language. In this study we focus on the specific difficulties of children with DLD in spelling. We examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
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Afonso, Olivia; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Cuetos, Fernando – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
This study investigated which components of the writing production process are impaired in Spanish children with developmental dyslexia (DD) aged 8 to 12 years. Children with and without dyslexia (n = 60) were assessed in their use of the lexical and the sublexical routes of spelling as well as the orthographic working memory system by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Difficulties, Dyslexia, Spelling
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Afonso, Olivia; Álvarez, Carlos J.; Martínez, Carmen; Cuetos, Fernando – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present study addresses the scope of the writing difficulties observed in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Patients with AD, patients with MCI and healthy controls performed a written picture-naming task and a direct copy transcoding task in which phonology-to-orthography (P-O) consistency was…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Writing Difficulties, Patients, Neurological Impairments