Treatment of irregular word spelling in acquired dysgraphia: selective benefit from visual mnemonics

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Laura Schmalzl, Lyndsey Nickels

Abstract

In contrast to the numerous treatment studies of spoken language deficits, there have been relatively few studies concerned with the treatment of spelling disorders. Among these, there have been only a small number that have targeted specific components of the spelling process. We describe a successful single case treatment study for FME, a woman with acquired dysgraphia, which was conducted within a cognitive neuropsychological framework. Pre-treatment assessment revealed a semantic deficit, impaired access to output orthography and probable additional degradation of the actual representations within the orthographic output lexicon. The treatment study was therefore directed towards relearning spellings by strengthening, and facilitating access to, specific orthographic representations for writing. In order to maximise the functional outcome for FME, treatment was focused on high frequency, irregular words. The treatment programme was carried out in two phases, one without and one with the use of mnemonics, and the results showed a selective training effect with the mnemonics alone. Treatment benefits were item specific but long lasting, and a significant improvement in FME's spelling performance was still evident at 2 months ...Continue Reading

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May 19, 2009·Neuropsychological Rehabilitation·Anastasia RaymerKelli-Lynn Reff
May 13, 2008·Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior·Britta Biedermann, Lyndsey Nickels
Nov 19, 2014·Neuropsychological Rehabilitation·Trudy KrajenbrinkSaskia Kohnen
Apr 10, 2015·Neuropsychological Rehabilitation·Lindsey ThielPaul Conroy
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May 15, 2018·Neuropsychological Rehabilitation·Aris R TerzopoulosJackie Masterson
Jun 14, 2019·American Journal of Speech-language Pathology·Karen Hux, Tana Mahrt

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