Learning to spell can become a motivating contributor to a child's understanding of how print works. Spelling is an instructional tool that can help students understand the alphabetic writing system and its relationship to spoken language. Beginning spelling is an ideal method for strategically integrating the reading of big ideas of phonemic awareness and alphabetic understanding. Though spelling is often defined as recognizing or reproducing a correct sequence of letters in an oral or written form, the actual process of spelling involves the critical integration of phonological and alphabetic skills of beginning reading. Learning difficulties not only present problems in coping with academic requirement but has serious repercussions. Teachers and parents label children by their behaviour without knowing that reasons are at the root of the problem. According to researchers, learning difficulties can cause emotional distress. Children with learning disabilities may have higher levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and low self-esteem than children with no disabilities. Children with learning difficulties are frequently criticized by teachers and parents and they may also be rejected by peers. As they fall further and further behind they develop a picture of themselves as deficient, different, hopeless and unsuccessful, unless special steps are taken to attend to these issues. During the early years, up to class IV, that efforts at diagnosing learning difficulties and addressing remedial work in language and mathematics must be directed for good results. Standardized tools for testing are not easily available in India, nor are indigenous tools for identification of processing deficits, intelligence testing and testing for proficiency in reading and writing available. So far the process of identification is largely confined to children enrolled in urban schools with English as the medium of instruction. The language of the testing instruments is occasionally unsuitable to Indian students who may not be proficient in English. Language based tests are not yet fully developed in Kerala which will be very useful for the identification of learning disabled children. Thus the objective of this study was to prepare a spelling tool in Malayalam for the identification of learning disabled children and evaluate its effectiveness.