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Online Writing Processes in Translating Cognition into Language and Transcribing Written Language by Stylus and Keyboard in Upper Elementary and Middle School Students with Persisting Dysgraphia or Dyslexia
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Beers, Scott F.; Berninger, Virginia; Mickail, Terry; Abbott, Robert – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Participants in this study completed an online experiment in which they wrote essays by stylus or keyboard. Three translation measures (length of language burst, length of pauses, and rate of pausing) and four transcription measures (total words, total time, words/minute, and percent spelling errors) for composition were analyzed for two research…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Comparative Analysis, Writing Processes, Essays
Sequential Prediction of Literacy Achievement for Specific Learning Disabilities Contrasting in Impaired Levels of Language in Grades 4 to 9
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Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Berninger, Virginia W.; Abbott, Robert D. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Sequential regression was used to evaluate whether language-related working memory components uniquely predict reading and writing achievement beyond cognitive-linguistic translation for students in Grades 4 through 9 (N = 103) with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in subword handwriting (dysgraphia, n = 25), word reading and spelling…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Short Term Memory, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement
Comparison of Narrative and Expository Writing in Students with and without Language-Learning Disabilities
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Koutsoftas, Anthony D.; Gray, Shelley – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: Students with language-learning disabilities (LLD) demonstrate difficulties with written language, especially in the areas of productivity, complexity, and grammar. It is not clear how these deficits affect their performance on high-stakes tests, such as those required by the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2002).…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Written Language, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities
Written Narratives of Normal and Learning Disabled Children.
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Johnson, Doris J.; Grant, James O. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1989
Writing samples of 295 primary school children improved in productivity, syntax, and level of abstraction from grade one through three. The writing of learning-disabled children who were matched with average reading ability primary-school children indicated no significant differences in productivity, but problems in syntax (especially morphology),…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities, Morphology (Languages)
Remedial Teaching: Research and Comment.
Otto, Wayne, Ed.; Koenko, Karl, Ed. – 1969
Following suggestions by the editors on how to evaluate their selections are 49 articles on research and on programs and procedures in remedial and corrective education. Papers included treat the following topics: problems of underachievement, correlates of learning disability, approaches to the diagnosis of learning problems, approaches to…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Case Records, Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Education
Written Expression: Assessment and Remediation for Learning Disabled Students.
Bain, Ann M. – Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1982
The educational evaluation and remediation of written language disorders in learning disabled students are considered. It is suggested that a written language assessment should involve a thorough educational history and a complete psychoeducational evaluation. Attention is directed to written language assessment and remediation for handwriting,…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Handwriting Instruction