Students with special needs comprise several heterogeneous groups of children and
adolescents, including youth who are identified as having learning disabilities, attention …

Copying is a component of learning to write. But persons may be able to copy words while
being linguistically incapable of communicating through writing. Communicative writing …

In “The Road Less Traveled,” Graham and Harris (chap. 8, this volume) identify six principles
of exemplary writing instruction. Graham and Harris are well qualified to propose such …

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization promoted the creation
of a model instrument for individual assessment of students' foundational writing skills in the …

Fluent production of a variety of grammatically correct sentences is essential to overall
writing quality across genres. Sentence–production skills become increasingly important as …

Purpose Children with dyslexia often have related writing difficulties. In the simple view of
writing model, high-quality writing depends on good transcription skills, working memory …

Purpose Difficulties with written expression are an important consideration in the
assessment and treatment of school-age children. This study evaluated how intermediate …

Speech-language pathologists have not typically included writing as part of instructional or
intervention goals. This omission may be related to the sparse research data on writing …

Even though the most prevalent category of disability served in the US school system is
specific learning disabilities (SLD), practitioners are often unfamiliar with the indicators …