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Peer reviewedMcNaughton, David; Hughes, Charles; Clark, Karen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study investigated effects of five proofreading conditions on the spelling performance of 12 college students with learning disabilities. Conditions were handwriting with no additional assistance, with a print dictionary, and with a handheld spelling checker; and word processing with no additional assistance and with a spelling checker. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Handwriting, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRaskind, Marshall H.; Higgins, Eleanor – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1995
This study investigated effects of speech synthesis on proofreading efficiency among 33 postsecondary students with learning disabilities. Using a speech synthesis system enabled subjects to detect a significantly higher percentage of errors, though having text read aloud by another person remained the most effective way to find…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Efficiency
Peer reviewedDalton, 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
Peer reviewedMcNaughton, 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
Peer reviewedShannon, Ted R.; Polloway, Edward A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1993
Middle school students with learning disabilities were successfully taught the COPS monitoring strategy to revise and correct writing mistakes. Steps in the strategy include capitalization of appropriate letters, overall appearance of paper, punctuation used correctly, and spelling accuracy. (JDD)
Descriptors: Error Correction, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMarchisan, Marti L.; Alber, Sheila R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2001
This article presents practical and specific strategies for helping students with writing difficulties become successful in each of the following stages of the writing process: prewriting, writing, revising, and publishing. Recommendations include using visual images, modeling prewriting procedures, providing word banks, providing a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching, Proofreading
Download full textSmith, Judith Osgood – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 1993
A study used structured interviews to explore the nature of written language difficulties of 31 university students with learning disabilities. Discussion of results addressed perceived demands for written expression; specific areas of difficulty (proofreading/detecting errors, spelling, grammar, writing speed, legibility); strategies used to…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), College Students, Error Correction, Grammar
Murphy, Harry; Higgins, Eleanor – 1994
This final report describes the activities and accomplishments of a 3-year study on the compensatory effectiveness of three assistive technologies, optical character recognition, speech synthesis, and speech recognition, on postsecondary students (N=140) with learning disabilities. These technologies were investigated relative to: (1) immediate…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Compensatory Education, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness
