Reading, Spelling and Writing Development in Children with Developmental Language Disorder and/or Dyslexia
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: language and literacy development in Children
Interests: spelling and writing development; developmental language disorder and dyslexia
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research over the last few decades has established that children with Developmental Language Disorder and/or Dyslexia experience difficulties with the development of written language skills while reading, spelling and writing compared to their peers. These difficulties are often underpinned by oral language difficulties including phonological awareness, morphological awareness and vocabulary. Research has also shown an interplay of difficulties across written language, e.g., reading ability can predict spelling ability and spelling ability can predict writing ability. Intervention work has often focused on improving phonological awareness, the depth and breadth of vocabulary and orthographic knowledge. In this Special Issue, we aim to enhance our understanding of written language development in children with DLD or Dyslexia in isolation or children who have both DLD and Dyslexia. Papers could explore reading (word recognition/comprehension), spelling or writing in isolation or as an interplay of more than one skill. We welcome contributions in the form of theoretical and methodological review papers, empirical studies, novel methodologies and methods of analyses and intervention trials. We also welcome papers including cross-cultural comparisons and studies on children whose spoken/written language is other than English.
Please submit your proposals and any questions to special issue guest editors by 30th September 2024. Notification of acceptance will be provided by 16th October 2024.
Dr. Sarah Critten
Dr. Rebecca Larkin
Dr. Gareth Williams
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reading
- spelling
- writing
- developmental language disorder
- dyslexia
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