students with learning disabilities written communication: handwriting, spelling, and written...
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Students with Learning Disabilities
Written Communication: Handwriting, Spelling, and Written
Expression
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Handwriting Problems
• Instruction in handwriting improves written expression skills
• There are many handwriting problems including slowness, too much or too little slant, and mirror handwriting
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Assessment of Handwriting Skills
• Few standardized tests to measure handwriting
• Informal Assessment Techniques– Close visual examination of student’s
handwriting noting problem areas or error patterns
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Teaching Handwriting Skills
• Readiness Skills
• Manuscript Writing
• Transitional Writing
• Cursive Writing
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Development of Spelling Skills
• Precommunicative spelling
• Semiphonetic Spelling
• Phonetic Spelling
• Transitional Spelling
• Correct Spelling
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Assessment of Spelling Skills
• Standardized and Criterion-Referenced Tests
• Informal Assessment Techniques– Dictated spelling test– Informal spelling inventory– Curriculum-based measurement– Spelling error analysis– Cloze procedure– Probes
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Teaching Spelling Skills
• Rule-Based Instruction
• Multisensory Approach
• Test-Study-Test Technique– Study strategies
• Fixed and Flow Word Lists
• Additional Considerations
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Written Expression Skills
• One of highest forms of communication
• Typically not acquired until person has extensive experience with reading, spelling, and verbal expression
• Problems may not be diagnosed until upper elementary years
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Assessment of Written Expression Skills
• Standardized and Criterion-Referenced Tests
• Informal Assessment Techniques– Fluency– Syntax– Vocabulary– Structure– Content– Profile of Component
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Assessment of Written Expression Skills continued
– Curriculum-based measurement– Portfolio assessment
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Teaching Written Expression Skills
• Creative and functional writing• Shift from product of writing to the
process involved in creating that product
• Three basic steps:– Planning, writing, and revising
• Teacher should promote a positive attitude to motivate student to write
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Written Expression Strategies
• PENS
• PLEASE
• COPS
• TOWER
• HOW