They Have a Write to Go To College Too: Challenges for Secondary Level Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Joan Aker

Abstract Children with language disabilities at the secondary level experience significant difficulty in all components of the writing process. This article discusses issues contributing to student’s difficulty in writing as well as suggestions for how to support written language development in this population.

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Lanter ◽  
Claire Waldron

Abstract The authors describe an innovative clinical education program that emphasizes the provision of written language services by preservice speech-language pathology graduate students at Radford University in Virginia. Clinicians combined academic coursework in language acquisition in school-age children and clinical experiences that target children's written language development to promote future literacy-based leadership roles and collaborative efforts among school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). These literacy-based experiences prepare SLPs to serve in the growing numbers of American public schools that are implementing Response to Intervention models.


1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy T. Morris ◽  
W. Donald Crump

Learning disabled students demonstrate serious problems in developing written language facility. Although written expression is one of seven aspects of achievement specified in the federal guidelines for identification of learning disabled students, measurement of written language development is quite complex. The search for a single, sensitive index of written language development is compounded by the synergistic nature of written language and the influence of contrived formats used in assessment. Syntax and vocabulary are frequently employed in research on written language development. Thus, the minimal terminable unit (T-unit) and the type/token ratio have been used as indices of syntactic and vocabulary development in analyzing samples of students' written language. Recently, computer technology has permitted the use of more complex measures of syntactic density and vocabulary intensity. The purpose of this study was to compare the written language development of learning disabled and non-learning disabled students at four age levels on measures of syntactic and vocabulary development. Implications for measurement and research are discussed.


Author(s):  
Gundega Tomele

The successful acquisition of written language is an important precondition for schoolchildren academic achievement. Written language disorders are usually diagnosed during primary school, although the etiology of them is largely associated to children oral and written language development in the pre-school years. This article presents the need of primary prevention of written language disorders at the preschool level and its realization with a help of Montessori pedagogy. There is summarized theoretical knowledge in the context of language acquisition and reflected Montessori pedagogy prerequisites for the successful written language acquisition and correction of early signs of disorders in the pre-school years.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Scott ◽  
Jenny A. Roberts ◽  
Rena Krakow

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