The effects of a spelling task on the subsequent performance of dyslexics

✍ Scribed by J. Everatt; P. Brannan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 550 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-9242
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0909(199602)2:1<22::aid-dys32>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

This study investigates the effects of a prior spelling task on the performance of subsequent tasks by adult dyslexics and non-dyslexics. The findings suggest that dyslexics' performance in a nonverbal memory task and, to a lesser extent, a spatial reasoning task are detrimentally affected by the prior spelling task. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of the anxiety felt and the lowering of self-esteem produced by consistent failure in a task, the effects of spelling performance in examinations, and the problems of using pre-tests in studies of differential performance between dyslexics and non-dyslexics.