De Invloed van TOS en/of Thuistaal op Spelling

Abstract

Children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) have serious language problems that affect their daily lives and functioning. The group of children with DLD is very heterogeneous. Many children with DLD also have literacy problems in the form of reading and spelling problems. Relatively little is known about the literacy of multilingual children with TOS, so this study investigated whether multilingualism plays a role in the spelling skills of children with TOS. In addition, the effect of part of speech (pure sound, rule words and knowledge words) in word spelling was investigated, as well as the relationship between a word dictation and a writing task. A dictation and a writing task were administered to the same sample of 139 and 167, respectively, monolingual and multilingual children with DLD from cluster 2 schools. Analyses show that there are no differences between monolingual and multilingual children with DLD on both the dictation and the writing task, and that there is a strong correlation between the dictation and the writing task. The findings show that children with DLD in cluster 2 education have difficulties with word- and text spelling, but also that multilingual children with DLD have no more difficulties than monolingual children with DLD in this sample.