Spelling and Handwriting Difficulties inDyslexia: Studies of online and offline writingprocesses.Marketa CaravolasBangor Universitym.caravolas@bangor.ac.ukSpelling problems are ubiquitous in dyslexia. Wepropose a collection of four talks, two based onEnglish and two on French speakers, on aspectsof spelling among children (3 papers) andadults (one paper) with dyslexia. Our aim is todisseminate new findings about the features andpotential causes of spelling difficulties amongpopulations with dyslexia, while also informingdelegates about current technological advancesin spelling/writing research with tools such asdigitizing tablets for studies of online processes,and automated spelling assessment tools likePONTO (Kessler, 2009).
