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Dalton, Bridget; And Others – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1990
Two fourth grade boys with learning disabilities learned to use the Bank Street Writer III word processing and spelling checker program to edit spelling errors. Both boys learned to manage the spell-checking process and increased the spelling accuracy of their edited texts. Differences in their learning processes and the tool's limitations are…
Descriptors: Editing, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction, Intermediate Grades
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McNaughton, David; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Investigated the impact of integrated proofreading strategy training, which combined a computer-based spelling checker and student strategies, on the proofreading of three secondary students with learning disabilities. Students showed an increase in strategy use and percentage of spelling errors corrected on controlled proofreading materials and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Editing, Error Correction, Learning Disabilities