Date of Award
Spring 4-21-2020
Document Type
Honors Project
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English, Linguistics, and Communication
Department Chair or Program Director
Richards, Gary
First Advisor
Parker, Judith
Major or Concentration
Linguistics
Abstract
Dyslexia affects approximately 7-10% of the English-speaking population (Kalashnikova et al., 2019) and is a “persistent and unexplained difficulty in achieving accurate and/or fluent word recognition skills, despite adequate intelligence and opportunity” (Waldie et al., 2017, p. 29). Children at a familial risk for developing dyslexia may begin showing impairments in their literacy skills as early as the age of two, which often affects scholastic achievement, as children are expected to be proficient in their native language by five years old. Children with dyslexia face impairments in morphological awareness, the “explicit awareness and ability to manipulate and reflect upon the morphemic structure of words” (Law & Ghesquière, 2017, p.47), and lag behind their age-matched peers in developing reading and spelling accuracy. If children with dyslexia can be supported in their development of morphological awareness skills, then they may also show improvements in their ability to read and spell accurately.
Recommended Citation
King, Mackenzie, "Language and Dyslexia: The Influence of Morphological Awareness on the Literacy Development of Children with Dyslexia" (2020). Student Research Submissions. 412.
https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research/412