Do dyslexic children have a deficit in copying skills?
(2018) 1st Literacy Summit — Location: Porto, Portugal (1.November.2018)
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- Copying skills are daily used at school and it is unclear whether dyslexic children have a specific deficit in copying, in addition to their spelling deficit. Therefore, the present research aims to compare copying skills of children with and without dyslexia. Nineteen French-speaking Grade 3 and 4 dyslexic children and 19 typically developing children, matched on age, nonverbal intelligence and vocabulary, were asked to perform 40-word dictation and copying tasks on the same target words. GLMM analyses showed that all children did fewer errors in the copying than in the dictation task, and had poorer handwriting quality in the copying task. Dyslexic children’s handwriting quality was even more impaired than that of the control children in the copying task. These findings suggest that dyslexic children do have specific handwriting difficulties in the copying condition and that they may use slightly different processes than children without dyslexia.
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Blampain, E., & Van Reybroeck, M. (2018). Do dyslexic children have a deficit in copying skills? 1st Literacy Summit, Porto, Portugal. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/124512