Research Review: The Influence of Spelling Ability on Handwriting Production: Children With and Without Dyslexia

The main purpose of this study was to analyze whether the hesitant spelling of children with dyslexia influences their choice of vocabulary used when writing (Sumner, Connelly, and Barnett, 2014). These authors were inspired by previous studies that have been done on children with dyslexia, which have found that they most often make spelling errors while writing due to various reasons (Sumner, Connelly, and Barnett, 2014). Previous studies have also shown that children with dyslexia had a tendency of pausing more frequently while writing a text, when compared to their same-age peers (Sumner…