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Like reading, spelling is a written language skill that draws upon an individual’s repertoire of linguistic knowledge, including phonological awareness; knowledge of orthography, vocabulary, morphology and semantic relationships; and mental orthographic images. Each of these areas of linguistic or “word study” knowledge contributes to spelling success and a deficit in any one of these areas of word study knowledge will manifest as a specific pattern of misspelling. Accordingly, the analysis of an individual’s spelling errors can be used to identify underlying linguistic deficits. This article examines spelling as a language-based skill, describes specific patterns of misspelling associated with different types of linguistic deficits, and describes the steps of a prescriptive spelling assessment which uses error analysis to identify the specific language knowledge deficits.
Course Objectives

Readers will be able to explain spelling as a language-based skill and give examples of how an individual’s phonological awareness and their knowledge of orthography, vocabulary, morphology, semantic relationships, and mental orthographic images contribute to the spelling process.
Readers will be able to describe the specific patterns of misspelling associated with each type of linguistic knowledge deficit.
Readers will be able to describe the steps of a prescriptive spelling assessment, and analyze a spelling sample to identify the specific language knowledge deficits that are responsible for the spelling errors.

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Jan Wasowicz, Ph.D.
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