The characteristics of spelling difficulties for Chinese students

Abstract The study explored the characteristics of students with spelling difficulties in China. According to the international classification of diseases and related health problems Tenth Edition (ICD-10) on the spelling difficulties, there were 7 students with spelling difficulties (means of age = 107.71 months old) selected from total 146 students (means of age = 107.59 months old). The results showed that, spelling difficulties group had more no response errors than the typical speller group. And the SD group and TS group had the same patterns in the no response answers considering the orthographic structure. But the SD group could not make use of the implicitly orthographic structure for the detail while TS group could do. The results confirmed that the SD group had deficit in orthographic-phonographic connections and the information of orthographic structure might work in the whole characters level for SD group. It gave some suggestions for the impairment for the SD group.