Nelly Joye|Lucie Broc|Thierry Olive|Julie Dockrell
Spelling Performance in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: A Meta-Analysis across European Languages
Bases, Corpus, Langage|University of Poitiers|French National Centre for Scientific Research
spelling difficulties often occur children developmental language disorder dld extent drivers difficulties underspecifiedmetaanalyses conducted address gapwe identified childbased factors age language spoken profile difficulties taskbased factors text production dictation potential moderators impact dld spelling performance32 studies analyzed including 984 children dldlarge differences spelling children dld agematched peers foundthe average mean effect size 142 95ci 160 124heterogeneity largeeffect size estimates larger participants additional phonological reading difficulties notno differences found participants dld languagematched peersthe results discussed respect underlying processes impact spelling across languagesspecific recommendations future studies made