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Writing Errors in Deaf Children

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This article is aimed at deaf children literacy and addresses the error frequency in a writing sample. The dataset comes from a writing word task. The writing errors was classified into two types: lexical and phonological. The sample was composed of 199 deaf users of sign language, 15 deaf with hearing prosthesis, and 44 hearing children. All the participants were students of elementary school. As expected, the results show significant differences in type error (lexical vs. phonological) only in the deaf signer’s group, with higher values in errors related to lexical route. However, we also found a positive correlation between phonological errors and the number of coded words in the deaf group.

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  1. This database called “Writin Errors in Deaf Children” is stored on the Open Science Framework repository OSFHOME: https://osf.io/mgazq/?view_only=8aafaadf389348fd9b206debbef52647

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Herrera-Marmolejo, A., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Gamboa García, E.K. et al. Writing Errors in Deaf Children. J Dev Phys Disabil 32, 409–425 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-019-09701-4

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