The Written Composing Ability of Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Literature From 1980 to 1990

This article reviews the literature pertaining to the written composing ability of students with learning disabilities that was published primarily in the decade from 1980 to 1990. The papers included are either reports of research or discussions of instructional procedures that are based on research. The topics addressed include story composition, expository writing, training/intervention research, and rationales/procedures for instruction.

[1]  D. Deshler,et al.  Learning Strategies: An Instructional Alternative for Low-Achieving Adolescents , 1986, Exceptional children.

[2]  Barbara F. Nodine,et al.  Story Composition by Learning Disabled, Reading Disabled, and Normal Children , 1985 .

[3]  Carol Sue Englert,et al.  Sensitivity to Text Structure in Reading and Writing: A Comparison Between Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Students , 1987 .

[4]  Richard Gray,et al.  A Comparison of Components of Written Expression Abilities in Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Students at Three Grade Levels , 1980 .

[5]  Story Composition Skills of Middle-Grade Students with Learning Disabilities , 1990, Exceptional children.

[6]  S. Graham,et al.  Components analysis of cognitive strategy instruction: Effects on learning disabled students' compositions and self-efficacy. , 1989 .

[7]  Carol Sue Englert,et al.  Students' Metacognitive Knowledge about How to Write Informational Texts , 1988 .

[8]  L L Lee,et al.  Developmental sentence types: a method for comparing normal and deviant syntactic development. , 1966, The Journal of speech and hearing disorders.

[9]  Nancy T. Morris,et al.  Syntactic and Vocabulary Development in the Written Language of Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Students at Four Age Levels , 1982 .

[10]  Nancy T. Morris,et al.  Story Grammar Knowledge of Learning Disabled Students. , 1989 .

[11]  Lloyd J. Thompson,et al.  Development and Disorders of Written Language , 1973 .

[12]  Pearl L. Seidenberg.  Relating Text-Processing Research to Reading and Writing Instruction for Learning Disabled Students. , 1989 .

[13]  P. Worden,et al.  Memory for Stories in Learning Disabled Adults , 1982, Journal of learning disabilities.

[14]  C. Houck,et al.  Written Expression of Students With and Without Learning Disabilities , 1989, Journal of learning disabilities.

[15]  Charles A. MacArthur,et al.  Learning Disabled Students' Composing Under Three Methods of Text Production , 1987 .

[16]  S Graham,et al.  Instructional Recommendations for Teaching Writing to Exceptional Students , 1988, Exceptional children.

[17]  Steve Graham,et al.  Improving composition skills of inefficient learners with self‐instructional strategy training , 1987 .

[18]  B. Nodine,et al.  Comparison of the Story Production of LD, Normal-Achieving, and Low-Achieving Children under Two Modes of Production , 1988 .

[19]  D. N. Ripich,et al.  Narrative Abilities of Children with Learning Disabilities and Nondisabled Children , 1988, Journal of learning disabilities.

[20]  L Outhred,et al.  Word Processing , 1989, Journal of learning disabilities.

[21]  Catherine C. DuCharme,et al.  The Author Model: The Constructivist View of the Writing Process , 1989 .

[22]  C. S. Englert.  Exposition: Reading, Writing, and the Metacognitive Knowledge of Learning Disabled Students. , 1989 .

[23]  Barbara F. Nodine,et al.  Children's Ability to Write Stories as a Function of Variation in Task, Age, and Developmental Level , 1987 .

[24]  Carol Sue Englert,et al.  An Analysis of Errors and Strategies in the Expository Writing of Learning Disabled Students , 1987 .

[25]  Phyllis K. Mirkin,et al.  Valid Measurement Procedures for Continuous Evaluation of Written Expression , 1982 .

[26]  T. Jaben.  The Effects of Creativity Training on Learning Disabled Students' Creative Written Expression , 1983, Journal of learning disabilities.

[27]  Carol Sue Englert,et al.  Children's Developing Awareness of Text Structures in Expository Materials. , 1984 .

[28]  B. Wong,et al.  Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects of Learning Disabled Adolescents' Composing Problems , 1989 .

[29]  S. Jay Samuels,et al.  Children’s Use of Text Structure in the Recall of Expository Material , 1983 .

[30]  Carol Sue Englert.  A Case for Writing Intervention: Strategies for Writing Informational Text. , 1988 .

[31]  N. Stein,et al.  An Analysis of Story Comprehension in Elementary School Children: A Test of a Schema. , 1975 .

[32]  Carol Sue Englert,et al.  Awareness of Text Structure in Recognition and Production of Expository Discourse , 1983 .

[33]  S. Graham,et al.  Improving Learning Disabled Students' Composition Skills: Self-Control Strategy Training , 1985 .

[34]  S Graham,et al.  Improving Learning Disabled Students' Skills at Composing Essays: Self-Instructional Strategy Training , 1989, Exceptional children.

[35]  M. Montague,et al.  Story Grammar and Comprehension and Production of Narrative Prose by Students with Learning Disabilities , 1990, Journal of learning disabilities.

[36]  James A. Poteet.  Characteristics of Written Expression of Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Elementary School Students. , 1979 .

[37]  Donald D. Deshler,et al.  EFFECTS OF GENERALIZATION INSTRUCTION ON THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE OF ADOLESCENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM , 1988 .

[38]  S. Graham,et al.  Composition Instruction with Learning Disabled Students: Self-Instructional Strategy Training. , 1987 .

[39]  S. Vogel.  Syntactic complexity in written expression of LD college writers , 1985, Annals of dyslexia.

[40]  F. P. Roth,et al.  Narrative discourse: spontaneously generated stories of learning-disabled and normally achieving students. , 1986, The Journal of speech and hearing disorders.

[41]  Dale L. Johnson.  The Psychology of Deafness , 1962 .

[42]  Catharine J. R Reynolds,et al.  The Effects of Revision Strategy Instruction on the Writing Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities , 1988, Journal of learning disabilities.

[43]  Written Language Instruction for Students with Mild Handicaps: Is There Enough Quantity to Ensure Quality? , 1989 .

[44]  C. Graybeal.  Memory for stories in language-impaired children , 1981, Applied Psycholinguistics.

[45]  Virginia L. Fortner.  Generalization of Creative Productive-Thinking Training to LD Students' Written Expression , 1986 .

[46]  Barbara M. Taylor,et al.  Children's Memory for Expository Text after Reading. , 1980 .

[47]  D. Meichenbaum.  Cognitive-Behavior Modification: An Integrative Approach , 1977 .

[48]  W. Crump,et al.  Effects of Discourse Mode on the Syntactic Complexity of Learning Disabled Students' Written Expression , 1984 .

[49]  P. Sindelar,et al.  Auditory Feedback and Writing: Learning Disabled and Nondisabled Students , 1988, Exceptional children.

[50]  M. Scardamalia,et al.  The psychology of written composition , 1987 .

[51]  Anne Graves,et al.  The Effects of Procedural Facilitation on the Story Composition of Learning Disabled Students. , 1990 .

[52]  S. Isaacson.  Role of Secretary Vs. Author: Resolving the Conflict in Writing Instruction , 1989 .

[53]  James Britton,et al.  The development of writing abilities (11-18) , 1975 .

[54]  Gayla A. Kraetsch.  The Effects of Oral Instructions and Training on the Expansion of Written Language , 1981 .

[55]  P. Anderson.  A Preliminary Study of Syntax in the Written Expression of Learning Disabled Children , 1982, Journal of learning disabilities.

[56]  Gerald Tindal,et al.  Assessment of Written Expression for Students in Compensatory and Special Education Programs , 1989 .

[57]  Performance of Learning Disabled and Low Achieving Secondary Students on Formal Features of a Paragraph-Writing Task , 1981 .

[58]  N. Gregg,et al.  Coherence: the comprehension and production abilities of college writers who are normally achieving, learning disabled, and underprepared. , 1989, Journal of learning disabilities.

[59]  Leanne B. Kerchner,et al.  Language Processing/Word Processing: Written Expression, Computers and Learning Disabled Students , 1984 .

[60]  A. Gajar,et al.  A Computer Analysis of Written Language Variables and a Comparison of Compositions Written by University Students with and without Learning Disabilities , 1989, Journal of learning disabilities.

[61]  Suzanne Hidi,et al.  The comparison of oral and written productions in two discourse types , 1983 .

[62]  N. Gregg.  College Learning Disabled Writer , 1983, Journal of learning disabilities.

[63]  S. Graham.  COMPOSITION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: A UNIFIED APPROACH , 1982 .