Intervention for a lexical reading and spelling difficulty in two Greek-speaking primary age children: Lexical intervention targeting spelling

Aris Terzopoulos, Georgia Niolaki, Jackie Masterson

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    Abstract

    An intervention study was carried out with two nine-year-old Greek-speaking dyslexic children. Both children were slow in reading single words and text and had difficulty in spelling irregularly spelled words. One child was also poor in nonword reading. Intervention focused on spelling in a whole-word training using a flashcard technique that had previously been found to be effective with English-speaking children. Post-intervention assessments conducted immediately at the end of the intervention, one month later and then five months later showed a significant improvement in spelling of treated words that was sustained over time. In addition, both children showed generalisation of improvement to untrained words and an increase in scores in a standardised spelling assessment. The findings support the effectiveness of theoretically-based targeted intervention for literacy difficulties.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)371-392
    Number of pages22
    JournalNeuropsychological Rehabilitation
    Volume30
    Issue number3
    Early online date14 May 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2020

    Bibliographical note

    This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in
    Neuropsychological rehabilitation on 14/05/18, available
    online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09602011.2018.1467330

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    Keywords

    • Dual-route model
    • Dysgraphia
    • Spelling intervention

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
    • Rehabilitation
    • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
    • Applied Psychology

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