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Spelling Errors In Children With Autism, Khalyn I. Wiggins
Spelling Errors In Children With Autism, Khalyn I. Wiggins
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this study was to examine the spelling errors of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when asked to spell morphologically complex words. Specifically, this study sought to determine if percent accuracy across morphological areas would be similar to patterns noted in typical developing children, correlate with participant age, and correlate to performance on standardized measures of achievement. Additionally, the study wanted to highlight the types of errors made by children with ASD on homonyms and the specific linguistic patterns noted when spelling derivational and inflectional word types.
Participants included 29 children diagnosed with Autism, PDD-NOS, and Asperger’s …