Offers brief overviews of ways technology can facilitate the development of writing for students with a wide range of disabilities, including students with learning disabilities, hearing impairments, severe speech and physical impairments, and visual impairments. (SR)

Discusses Online Writing Labs--World Wide Web sites designed to support students' writing efforts by providing easy access to electronic resources and online tutoring. Describes three types of these services: resource materials, online tutoring, and information gateways. (SR)

The use of computers in the writing classroom changes the actual activities used in class, adapting some present activities and creating new paradigm activities, and also changes the arrangement of the classroom, forcing a radical rethinking of spatial design. The computer classroom is not a passive room, one where information goes out from the…