Handwriting is a complex human activity that entails an intricate blend of cognitive,
kinesthetic, and perceptual-motor components. Children are expected to acquire a level of …

This review examines and summarizes 16 research studies examining the writing self-
efficacy beliefs of 6th-to 10th-grade students. In the majority of the studies, self-efficacy was …

" Reviewing the state of the science of learning disabilities (LD) and describing effective
educational practices, this authoritative text has been significantly revised and expanded …

Clinical and psychoeducational data were analyzed for 119 children ages 8 to 16 years who
were evaluated in a child diagnostic clinic. A learning disability (LD) was present in 70% of …

The ability to generate written text requires the execution of a complex array of cognitive and
metacognitive skills. Because of the cognitive demands of this complexity, successful writers …

In this chapter the authors review 12 years of research on the prevention of spelling and
writing problems. They find that early intervention aimed at teaching handwriting or spelling …

Learning disabilities (LD) are common in clinical disorders, but no study has compared the
relative prevalence in referred children with different diagnoses. Our sample comprised 949 …

Although educators are expected to bring about functional changes in the brain--the organ
of human learning--they are given no formal training in the structure, function or …

This study examined the executive functioning of 55 elementary school children with and
without problems in written expression. Two groups reflecting children with and without …

Theories of writing development posit several component skills as necessary to the writing
process. This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on the correlation between these …