Improving Writing: Focus on Elementary-School African American Male Students With a Learning Disability

Improving Writing: Focus on Elementary-School African American Male Students With a Learning Disability

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  • Svjetlana Curcic
  • Sara Platt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28987/ijrld.4.1.59

Keywords:

writing, elementary, learning disability, African American

Abstract

This study examined the effectiveness of a writing intervention with three African Ameri- can male third graders with a learning disability in reading and low writing skills. The par- ticipants were instructed in planning, organizing, writing, editing, and revising, supported by dictation and transcription of students’ thoughts with the Dragon Dictation app. Mul- tiple-baseline data across participants were collected on the following curriculum-based measures: total words written, words spelled correctly, and correct word sequence. Visual data analysis, the percentage of nonoverlapping data, and the post-intervention data indi- cate large gains on the curriculum-based measures across participants.

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2023-05-31

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