How adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia use texting

Simoës-Perlant, Aurélie; Thibault, Marie-Pierre; Lanchantin, Tonia; Combes, Céline; Volckaert-Legrier, Olga; Largy, Pierre

doi:10.1075/wll.15.1.04sim

Article published In: Written Language & Literacy
Vol. 15:1 (2012) ► pp.65–79

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How adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia use texting

Aurélie Simoës-Perlant | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Marie-Pierre Thibault | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Tonia Lanchantin | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Céline Combes | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Olga Volckaert-Legrier | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Pierre Largy | University of Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, France

Published online: 30 January 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.15.1.04sim

Adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia have some phonological skill deficiency and/or visual-attention deficit. Knowing that these same skills are required to use SMS codes, the main objective of this study is to understand how these subjects use texting language. To understand this, we compared the SMSs of adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia with the SMSs of typical writers in a dictation task. We analyzed the number and the type of SMS codes used by the subjects. This study shows less use of SMS codes in quantitative terms in adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia (DD), but globally equivalent use in terms of quality, in comparison with normal writers. Keywords: adolescent; SMS language; dyslexia; dysorthographia; writing; development

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