An Empirical Investigation Of The Loss Of Spelling Ability In Dysphasics

Abstract

30 dysphasics, 20 brain-damaged patients and 60 normals were studied on a list of 80 spelling words so divided as to constitute four levels of increasing difficulty. Dysphasics were inferior on the spelling test as a whole, compared to normals and particularly on more difficult words. Low education and old age reduces spelling performance in the same general manner as dysphasia, but not as severely. The brain-damaged patients resembled the dysphasic group in total score.