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Writing Motivation Of Students With Specific Language Impairments, Kyle Lee Brouwer
Writing Motivation Of Students With Specific Language Impairments, Kyle Lee Brouwer
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study was designed to compare the writing motivation of students with specific language impairments with their non-disabled peers. Due to the cognitive and linguistic demands of the writing process, students with language impairments face unique difficulties during the writing process. It was hypothesized that students with specific language impairments will be more likely to report lower levels of perceived writing competence and be less autonomously motivated to write. Students in grades 3-5 in 11 schools (33 with specific language impairments, 242 non-disabled peers) completed self-report measures, designed from a Self-Determination Theory perspective, which measured the degree that students are …
Action: School Services - Respondent #2, Judy Montgomery, Phd, Ccc-Slp, Associate Professor, Chapman University, Judith Montgomery
Action: School Services - Respondent #2, Judy Montgomery, Phd, Ccc-Slp, Associate Professor, Chapman University, Judith Montgomery
Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Articles and Research
Presents news briefs related to school health services in the United States, as of April 2000. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's establishment of a professional issues forum on its Web site; Educational opportunities for disabled children resulting from the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act; Documents developed by ASHA as a result of an ASHA 1999 Priority Issue.
The Possible Causes And Remediation Of Inverted Vision, Archie J. Beamer
The Possible Causes And Remediation Of Inverted Vision, Archie J. Beamer
All Master's Theses
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine possible corrective methods for inverted vision. The visual problem is usually outgrown in the early teens, but these children who experience the problem tend to be classified as retarded because they cannot read. An intensive research of the literature for possible causes and corrective methods revealed inconclusive proof. However, two boys who were diagnosed to have inverted vision were given perceptual training exercises. The subjects responded to the treatment and in a short time were started on a reading readiness program. Although only two cases were found on which to experiment, …