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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Alphabetic Phonics" is an ungraded, multisensory curriculum distributed by School Specialty Intervention (formerly Educators Publishing Service) that teachers the structure of the English language and can be taught to individuals or small groups of elementary or secondary school students. This phonetic program teaches reading,…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Phonics, Handwriting
Berninger, Virginia W.; Abbott, Robert D.; Augsburger, Amy; Garcia, Noelia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2009
Fourth graders with learning disabilities in transcription (handwriting and spelling), LD-TD, and without LD-TD (non-LD), were compared on three writing tasks (letters, sentences, and essays), which differed by level of language, when writing by pen and by keyboard. The two groups did not differ significantly in Verbal IQ but did in handwriting,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities

Outhred, Lynne – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study compared stories written on either a word processor or handwritten by 15 children (ages 8-12) with learning disabilities. Use of the word processor resulted in fewer spelling errors for children with severe spelling problems and longer stories for children having problems with the mechanics of the writing task. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Instructional Effectiveness

Blandford, Barbara J.; Lloyd, John Wills – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
The study evaluated use of a card displaying seven self-instructional questions designed to prompt students to think about their handwriting. Use of the card with two learning disabled elementary school males resulted in improved handwriting which persisted over time even after the card was no longer available. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation

Outhred, Lynne – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1987
Fifteen learning-disabled students, aged 8-12 years, showed marked improvement in their story writing when they used a word processor as compared to handwritten stories. Children with severe spelling problems made fewer errors in their word-processed stories. Reluctant writers tended to write longer word-processed stories compared to handwritten…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities, Spelling
Berardi, Lucy Krabbe – 1982
Two individualized writing programs, useful for mainstreaming learning disabled students into the English classroom were field tested among 100 seventh and eighth grade students in four school districts. The document reports on the results of "Mission WRITE," the design of "Touchstone WRITE," and the strategies used in teaching…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Handwriting, Instructional Materials

Densem, Julie F.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study compared the effectiveness of sensory integrative therapy with a parallel physical education program or a no-treatment condition with 55 5- to 10-year-old learning or perceptually motor disabled children. Results indicated no significant differences among groups except that reading progress of children already able to read was improved…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities

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