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Corrigan, John R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1997
Offers suggestions for teaching dyslexic students from a graduate student who teaches composition and is himself dyslexic. Recommends the following strategies: one-on-one help, study skills assignments, individual strategies, step-by-step process, oral discussion, topics of interest to the student, and questions to build confidence. (PA)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies

Martin, Judy L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Notes the increasing number of learning-disabled (LD) students in college writing classes and the serious lack of research and training in how best to deal with their writing problems. Makes 25 suggestions for classroom management to help alleviate some of the problems that LD students face. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities

Manganello, Robert E. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1994
Describes, in a case study-like format, a cognitive strategy that might be helpful to the learning-disabled (LD) college student who must organize and write a longer text. Presents a brief description of an LD student and an actual writing assignment. Describes how the student completed the task. Discusses educational implications. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems