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Becky Moss; Jane Marshall; Celia Woolf; Katerina Hilari – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Stroke profoundly affects quality of life (QOL), including loss of employment, reduced social activity, shrinking social networks and low mood. Dysgraphia (impaired writing) is a common symptom of aphasia yet is rarely targeted in rehabilitation. Recent technological advances might challenge this, since much communication is now…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Intervention, Assistive Technology
De La Paz, Susan; Levin, Daniel M.; Butler, Cameron – Written Communication, 2023
Students with disabilities (SWD) in general education science classes are expected to engage in the scientific practices and potentially in the writing of arguments drawn from evidence. Currently, however, there are few research-based instructional approaches for teaching argument writing for these students. The present article responds to this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities, Writing (Composition)
Nobel, Kerstin; Barwasser, Anne; Grünke, Matthias; Asaro-Saddler, Kristie; Saddler, Bruce – International Education Studies, 2021
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of a simultaneous prompting procedure on the writing performance of three upper-elementary-level students diagnosed with learning disabilities (LD). Interventionists gave task directions followed by model prompts with a 0-s time delay to teach students composition. Non-targeted…
Descriptors: Prompting, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple contingency contracting intervention on the correct use of punctuation marks in freely produced texts by elementary school children with learning disabilities. This approach can be considered a promising strategy for facilitating the development of academic skills in…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Roitsch, Jane; Gumpert, Mindy; Springle, Alisha; Raymer, Anastasia M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: Students with learning disabilities (LD) often struggle to initiate writing tasks and have difficulty devoting sufficient resources to complete written compositions. Educators must determine the most effective writing instruction to help these students. Evidence-based educational practices benefit from research reviews such as systematic…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement, Evidence Based Practice
Saddler, Bruce; Asaro-Saddler, Kristie; Moeyaert, Mariola; Cuccio-Slichko, Julienne – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
In this single-case design study we examined the effects of a summarizing strategy on the written summaries of students with learning disabilities (LD). Three students with LD in fifth and sixth grades learned a mnemonic-based strategy (WINDOW) for writing summaries taught using the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) approach. Visual…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Grade 5
Smith, Heather Haynes; Crim, Courtney Lambert; Bos, Samantha – Preventing School Failure, 2019
Students with disabilities continue to perform below peers without disabilities in writing. To address the need for improving written expression for students with learning differences, schools are implementing instructional strategies. This study investigated teacher perceptions of a four-year, schoolwide, K-12 implementation of strategic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Mason, Linda H.; Zheng, Shuting – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
The effects of self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) for reading and writing, when delivered by eight special education teachers in middle school learning support classrooms, were examined in a quasi-experimental study. Results indicated that students, 75% with learning disabilities, who received treatment improved performance with small…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Special Education Teachers
Kaldenberg, Erica R.; Ganzeveld, Paula; Hosp, John L.; Rodgers, Derek B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Twenty-three single-subject studies aimed at improving the writing achievement of students identified as having a learning disability were analyzed meta-analytically. The effect size phi was used to compare the writing strategies. The dependent measures used to assess the efficacy of the interventions were also coded and reviewed. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Writing Achievement, Writing Improvement
Gillespie Rouse, Amy; Kiuhara, Sharlene A. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
In this article, we outline common challenges students with LD have with writing and then provide an overview of the evidence-based Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) instructional model in writing. Next, we provide detailed descriptions of SRSD instruction for students with LD in elementary and middle school classrooms, noting important…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities, Writing Instruction
Grünke, Matthias; Hatton, Heather – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2017
Poor writers generally spend little time developing an outline and otherwise planning written assignments before composing them. Far too many students in elementary and secondary education fall behind in their planning and composition skills because they do not receive appropriate instruction. In this single-case study, we tested the effects of an…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Instruction
Muflih, Mohammad Kh. M. – International Education Studies, 2019
The study aims to identify the effectiveness of using visual organizations in improving the reading and writing skills of students with learning disabilities from the point of view of the teachers of learning resource rooms, according to the variables of gender, scientific qualification and educational experience through the use of analytical…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Improvement, Writing Skills, Learning Disabilities
Miller, Katie M.; Little, Mary E. – Exceptionality, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an instructional package, Self-Regulated Strategy Development, a cognitive strategy instructional model (POW + TREE), in combination with video self-modeling (VSM) on the improvement on the written expression of three third-grade students with learning disabilities (LD). This…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Grade 3, Learning Disabilities, Achievement Tests
Flanagan, Sara; Bouck, Emily C.; Cutter, Elana – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
Students with and without learning disabilities struggle to engage in effective written expression. Despite challenges in written expression, written expression can be supported through pre-writing strategies such as procedural facilitators. Using a quasi-experimental design, eighth grade students with and without learning disabilities in written…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities, Writing Instruction
De La Paz, Susan; Wissinger, Daniel R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
In this study, we explored the potential of two forms of discussion (disciplinary vs. traditional) for 39 sixth- and seventh-grade students with or at risk for learning disabilities (LD), before writing historical arguments. Nine teachers who led small group discussions in six heterogeneous social studies classrooms implemented the intervention.…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Learning Disabilities, Writing Improvement, Grade 6