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De La Paz, Susan; Butler, Cameron – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
This article considers the topic of motivation for writing, and explores connections between writing interventions and motivation. We review the extant literature with K12 students who participated in writing interventions and examine the motivation outcomes in those studies to determine whether improvements in writing ability also led to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities, Writing Instruction, Intervention
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Gottesman, Ruth L. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1994
This literature review focuses on the outcome of childhood learning disabilities, adult symptomatology, and the educational and vocational status of adults with learning disabilities. It concludes that learning disabilities are life-long disabilities and that childhood deficiencies in reading, language, memory, attention, visual perception, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Employment Level, Individual Characteristics
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Hughes, Charles A.; Maccini, Paula; Gagnon, Joseph Calvin – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
Most adolescents with learning disabilities spend the majority of their school day in general education classes and are expected to meet most, if not all, of the academic requirements of these classes. This review of the literature describes interventions shown to positively impact academic performance of students with learning disabilities in…
Descriptors: General Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Secondary School Students