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Finger-writing intervention impacts the spelling and handwriting skills of children with developmental language disorder: a multiple single-case study

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Van Reybroeck, Marie [UCL] Michiels, Nathalie [UCL]

Learning to use grapheme to phoneme correspondences (GPCs) provides a powerful mechanism for the foundation of reading skills in children. However, for some children, such as those with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), the GPC learning process takes time, is laborious, and impacts the entire reading and spelling processes. The present study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of a finger-writing intervention on reading, spelling and handwriting performances. A visuomotor support was designed to help them to learn more efficiently GPCs since children with DLD appear to have altered phonological representations in memory. Over a period of two months, five children with DLD from a special primary school (aged from 7.42 years to 10.17 years) received individually either a finger-writing intervention or a control intervention, both focusing on phonological awareness and the learning of specific GPCs. In the finger-writing intervention, the child had to explore with their fingers the shape of relief-graphemes and excavated-letter. In the control intervention, the same exercises were made except that the two finger-writing tasks were replaced by two visual discrimination tasks. Children were compared on several measures (reading, spelling, handwriting and phonological awareness) before and after the treatment. Results indicated that the children from the finger-writing intervention showed greater improvement than the children from the control group in learning GPCs to improve their graphemic spelling and, for two of the three children, in handwriting. These findings have a clear practical implication for teachers' instructional practices at school.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2018
Language Anglais
Journal information "Reading and Writing" - Vol. 31, no.6, p. 1319-1341 (2018)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer Nature
issn 0922-4777
e-issn 1573-0905
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords Finger-writing ; Handwriting ; Spelling ; Developmental language disorder ; Intervention
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Bibliographic reference Van Reybroeck, Marie ; Michiels, Nathalie. Finger-writing intervention impacts the spelling and handwriting skills of children with developmental language disorder: a multiple single-case study. In: Reading and Writing, Vol. 31, no.6, p. 1319-1341 (2018)
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