Threats and conservation challenges of wildlife in Harenna Forest, Harenna Buluk District, South East Ethiopia

Abstract

This paper investigates Spanish dyslexic spelling abilities:specifically, the influence of syllabic linguistic structure (simple vsconsonant cluster) on children's spelling performance. Consonantclusters are phonologically complex structures, so it was anticipatedthat there would be lower spelling performance for these syllabicstructures than in simple ones, because of the poor phonologicalprocessing of dyslexic children. The participants were 31 dyslexicchildren, 31 chronological age-matched children and 31 readinglevel-matched children. A dictation task with words and pseudowords(with and without consonant clusters) was used. Word lexical frequencywas controlled. The results show that the spelling of consonant clusterspresents difficulties for dyslexic spelling performance despite thisstructure being orthographically consistent. Dyslexic children present ahigher performance difference in items with consonant clusters than insimple items, compared with typically developing children. The workraises questions about the items used for the identification of dyslexicchildren's difficulties.