Diagnosis and Remedial Treatment of Poor Spellers

The writer was notified of twenty-three of spelling dis ability in the Scarborough School, Scarborough, New York. These children were in grades seven to twelve and were doing such consistently poor spelling as to convince their teachers that they were of special disability. The term has been used to signify that the individual so designated was born short. In this study the term will not be used to imply that the children were incapable of learning to spell, but simply to mean that their spelling ability at the time was far below the norms for their respective ages and grades. It is the opinion of the writer that many so-called disability cases in spelling might have been avoided or corrected had they been skillfully handled from early years.