aim and background: one of the most important learning disabilities is spelling learning disability which is accompanied by memory problems and social skills. the main aim of present research was to review the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on memory and social skills of children with spelling learning disability. methods and materials: the research method of present study w...

In this talk I will investigate the popular idea that English spelling is chaotic, and consider how to teach English spelling. I will also assess the relationship between segmentation, reading and spelling. Spelling difficulties are due to the gap between orthography and pronunciation; a word represents both sound and meaning, and good spelling may improve students' overall performance.

Does the spelling of a word mandatorily constrain spoken word production, or does it do so only when spelling is relevant for the production task at hand? Damian and Bowers (2003) reported spelling effects in spoken word production in English using a prompt-response word generation task. Preparation of the response words was disrupted when the responses shared initial phonemes that differed in ...