Auditory Morphological Knowledge Among Children With Developmental Dyslexia

The development of a measure of root awareness to account for reading performance in the Arabic language: A development and validation study

“…MA tasks used in English and other Indo-European orthographies will not be sufficient in capturing the different nonlinear aspect of Arabic morphology. Research on MA and reading in Hebrew, a Semitic language like Arabic, has included tasks that assess the root and word pattern, which are interleaved onto each other in a nonlinear manner, in their morphological analogy tasks (Ravid & Malenky, 2001; Schiff, Cohen, Ben-Artzi, Sasson, & Ravid, 2016). The characteristics of the Arabic morphology call for a similar approach in developing a tool to measure the morphological root for Arabic readers.…”

Spelling and Morphology in Dyslexia: A Developmental Study Across the School Years

“…A growing body of data indicates that individuals with dyslexia score lower on morphological tasks than skilled readers (Robertson, Joanisse, Desroches, & Terry, ). This has also been shown for Hebrew, a language where most words are related through rich and systematic networks of morphological structures and meanings (Ravid, , ; Schiff & Ravid, , , ; Schiff et al , ).…”

“…These results are exactly in line with previous findings on inflectional and derivational morphological deficiencies in Hebrew speakers with dyslexia (Schiff & Ravid, , ). As always in Hebrew, where the lexicon and grammar are organized by morphological principles (Ravid, , , ; Schiff & Raveh, ; Schiff et al , ), these findings have severe implications on dyslexics' ability to process, relate and learn Hebrew words, and thus on reading comprehension and writing abilities. From clinical and educational perspectives, these results strongly suggest that rigorous morphological instruction is necessary in teaching children and adolescents with dyslexia to identify and use morphological cues in spoken and written Hebrew.…”

Introduction to Special Issue: Spelling and Morphology in Different Orthographies among Readers with and without Dyslexia

“…Other studies have established that morphological knowledge is not absent in dyslexic readers and depends on the language at stake (Deacon, Parrila, & Kirby, ; Schiff et al, ). Much of this contradicting evidence is primarily based on orthographies with different morphological structures and a range of methodologies.…”

“…Casalis, Deacon, & Pacton, ; Deacon, Kirby, & Casselman‐Bell, ; Sénéchal, Basque, & Leclaire, ). Some studies have reported deficient morphological processing in dyslexic populations compared to normal readers, indicating that dyslexic readers (adults and children) are likely to be severely deprived in spelling performance in comparison with their age mates, and, in many cases, with younger children of the same reading ability (Raveh & Schiff, ; Schiff & Raveh, ; Schiff & Ravid, ; Schiff, Cohen, Ben‐Artzi, Sasson, & Ravid, ). The difficulties appear to be most substantial in the spelling of morphologically complex words, particularly derived forms.…”