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Skotheim, Meghan Kane – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2009
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all language activities. The human capacity for speaking and listening has a biological foundation: wherever there are people, there is spoken language. Acquiring spoken language is an unconscious activity, and, barring any physical deformity or language learning disability, like severe autism, all…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Written Language, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia
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McFarland, Jacqueline; Shepard, Teri – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1995
Middle school students (n=39) with learning disabilities completed written and oral science composition tasks. Results indicated better overall oral than written performance, use of more sentences (though shorter) in written than oral presentations, and no significant differences between oral and written word count or thought units. Little…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools