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Ruthie E. Knight; Michaela J. Ritter; Diane F. Loeb – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this narrative review was to examine the linguistic and classroom strategies used by young adults with dyslexia. Studies investigating evidence about university students' use of strategies were compiled from four databases, including Academic Search Complete, APA PyscINFO, Education Research Complete, and Medline. Among the 117…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Learning Strategies
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Hall-Mills, Shannon; Marante, Leesa; Tonello, Breanna; Johnson, Lauren – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
The present case study illustrates the use of explicit text structure intervention for expository reading comprehension with three adolescents with language learning disabilities (LLD). We investigated whether it was feasible to provide direct instruction on the identification of signal words that denote compare-contrast relations between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities
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Hall-Mills, Shannon; Apel, Kenn – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2013
We evaluated the narrative and expository writing samples of 12 adolescents with language-learning disabilities (LLD) in Grades 6 to 12 for elements of microstructure (e.g., productivity, grammatical complexity) and macrostructure (genre-specific text structure elements) using an experimental measure. Writing samples were elicited with…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Writing Tests, Adolescents, Writing Evaluation