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McBride, Hazel E. A.; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
All available suicide notes (N=27) from 267 consecutive adolescent suicides were analyzed for spelling and handwriting errors and then dictated to adolescents with and without LD. Results indicated that 89% of the 27 adolescents who had committed suicide had significant deficits in spelling and handwriting similar to those of other adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Problems, Handwriting, Incidence
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Yates, Cheryl M.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1995
This study compared 10 gifted and 10 average children in each elementary grade for higher level cognitive writing processes and lower level transcription processes. Results indicated that gifted and average children differed in the higher level cognitive processes but not in the lower level writing processes. Results have implications for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Disability Identification, Gifted Disabled
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McNaughton, David; Hughes, Charles; Clark, Karen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study investigated effects of five proofreading conditions on the spelling performance of 12 college students with learning disabilities. Conditions were handwriting with no additional assistance, with a print dictionary, and with a handheld spelling checker; and word processing with no additional assistance and with a spelling checker. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Handwriting, Higher Education
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Graham, Steve – Journal of Special Education, 1987
Eleven fifth- and sixth-grade learning-disabled students composed and revised stories using handwriting, dictation, and word processing. Dictated stories differed from other formats on product measures such as length, quality, and grammatical errors. Differences between handwritten and word-processed stories were found on the process measures of…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dictation, Handwriting, Intermediate Grades
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Tovar, Mariela; Barker, Nicholas – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1986
The summative evaluation of a courseware program designed to assist in writing the lower-case alphabet is described to demonstrate the effectiveness of a field test for answering specific evaluation questions, collecting maximum evidence on which to base conclusions of instructional effectiveness, and being flexible enough for use in normal…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Field Tests, Foreign Countries
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Phelps, Joanne; Stempel, Lynn – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Writing readiness theories and the evolution of writing styles are reviewed, noting the strengths and weaknesses related to the special needs of dyslexic or learning-disabled students. Also discussed are the Children's Handwriting Evaluation Scale and its counterpart for college students, which provide objective measures of rate and quality of…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Students, Dyslexia, Elementary Education
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Vickery, Karen S.; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
A mastery learning program called MTARSH (Multisensory Teaching Approach for Reading, Spelling, and Handwriting) was used with 282 remedial students and 144 nonremedial students in grades 1-6. Subsequent California Achievement Test scores in reading and spelling improved over baseline scores for students in both remedial and nonremedial classes.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Intervention
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information of recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) spelling as a cognitive-linguistic developmental process; (2) the impact of cursive writing models on spelling achievement; (3) an intelligent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development