Purpose: Difficulties with written expression are an important consideration in the assessment and treatment of school-age children. This study evaluated how intermediate-grade children with and without written language difficulties fared on a writing task housed within the Hayes and Berninger (2014) writing process framework. Method: Sixty-four…

A study skill training procedure involving a modified study, question, read, recite, and review technique was functionally related to improved storytelling for three intermediate-grade learning disabled students. (CL)

This study applied the instructional hierarchy to examining the effects of 3 instructional interventions (listening passage preview, subject passage preview, and taped words) on oral reading performance of 4 students (ages 8-11) with learning disabilities. Results indicated that the listening passage preview intervention (which contained modeling,…

Effectiveness of a six-week spelling program implemented with seven learning-disabled sixth and seventh grade boys was assessed. Compared with controls, the experimental group demonstrated superior performance in the learning and retention of unpredictably spelled words. No difference between groups was found for words dictated in paragraphs. (JW)

To extend the applicability of intervention within the successive simultaneous processing model (which involves constant verbalization of actions), 68 fourth grade Canadian children were tested and divided into four groups: below average experimental, below average control, average control, average experimental. (Author/SBH)

This practicum study evaluated a non-basal, multidisciplinary, multisensory approach to teaching higher order reading comprehension skills to eight fifth-grade learning-disabled students from low socioeconomic minority group backgrounds. The four comprehension skills were: (1) identifying the main idea; (2) determining cause and effect; (3) making…

Low socially accepted learning-disabled intermediate-grade students (N=86) were paired with 86 high socially accepted, nonhandicapped classmates for 8 weeks in 4 groups: mutual interest group, cooperative academic task group, Hawthorne effect/control group, and classroom control group. Evaluated were changes in classmates' ratings of…

The study with five learning disabled students (grades 6-8) found that a self-monitoring intervention resulted in reduced adult initiation of assistance, decreased student-adult interaction during independent seatwork, and maintenance of high levels of student attention without adult assistance. (Author/DB)

Two studies of intermediate grade students with and without learning and writing disabilities evaluated the Self-Regulated Strategy Development model in teaching students how to plan persuasive essays before and during composing. Instructional effects were investigated using different research designs, in different settings, and with different…

Twenty children in grades 4-7, half with learning disabilities (LD), received cognitive behavior modification training to reduce math anxiety. From pretest to posttest, children with LD produced increased amounts of positive self-talk. There was a moderate, positive correlation between increased positive self-talk and math performance. (Author/JDD)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a multisensory spelling intervention under two conditions using high-frequency words written in isolation and in context. The population for the study was 15 fourth and fifth grade students with learning disabilities. A randomized, pretest-posttest control group design was used. The…

This article describes a points-and-levels system to improve behavior of students with learning and behavioral disabilities in an upper-elementary special education setting. The four levels each involved specified responsibilities and privileges and students earned specified numbers of points to qualify for a "successful day" and eventual…

A multiple-baseline-across-subjects study found that training in self-management reduced the inappropriate verbalizations of two middle school students with learning disabilities in a special class setting. The students also progressed more rapidly through the classroom token-economy levels system, designed to improve academic and social skills…

Three learning disabled fourth-grade students who asked few questions in their mainstream class viewed videotaped exemplars of question-asking, received structured opportunities for rehearsing question-asking, and received feedback. The resource room training procedures were effective in increasing the level of question-asking and in improving…

This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…