Children who can read and have good phonetic skills - the ability to recognize the individual sounds within words - may still be poor spellers. In a paper
published in the May 2008 issue of Cortex, Elizabeth Eglinton and Marian Annett, at the
School of Psychology of Leicester, UK, show that this subgroup of poor spellers is more likely to be right-handed than other poor spellers.The three-year
study was carried out in a cohort of children drawn from normal schools.
The Foundation for the
study of Infant Deaths (FSID) welcomes the findings of the research by Weber MA et al, Infection and sudden unexpected death in infancy: a systematic retrospective case
review published in The Lancet on 31 May 2008. The research, funded by FSID, reviewed autopsies undertaken between 1996 and 2005 at Great Ormond Street
hospital for Children of 507 infants, aged one week to one year, who died suddenly and unexpectedly.