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Secondary Educators’ Writing Practices For Students With Disabilities: Examining Distance Learning And In-Person Instruction, Amber B. Ray, Apryl L. Poch, Shawn M. Datchuk
Secondary Educators’ Writing Practices For Students With Disabilities: Examining Distance Learning And In-Person Instruction, Amber B. Ray, Apryl L. Poch, Shawn M. Datchuk
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
We report results of a national survey of secondary teachers who teach special education and/or English language arts in the United States. A total of 50 teachers from 27 different states completed the survey. In the survey, we asked teachers about their experience delivering distance and in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We specifically focused on three broad areas: writing assignments, writing instructional practices, and adaptations used to support students with disabilities. We also collected information about teacher characteristics, technology use, and teacher attitudes and self-efficacy about writing. On average, teachers reported receiving minimal preparation to teach writing via distance …
Five Steps To Teach Simple Sentence Writing To Students With Learning Disabilities, Shawn M. Datchuk, Leah M. Zimmermann, Kyle Wagner, Apryl L. Poch
Five Steps To Teach Simple Sentence Writing To Students With Learning Disabilities, Shawn M. Datchuk, Leah M. Zimmermann, Kyle Wagner, Apryl L. Poch
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Many students with learning disabilities struggle with sentence writing fluency, the skill of quickly and accurately generating words that follow rules of semantics, spelling, syntax, and usage within sentence structures understandable to readers. Students who struggle with sentence writing fluency may face difficulty fully expressing their ideas while engaging in academic writing. In the present article, we describe how a combination of explicit instruction and fluency practice can improve the simple sentence writing fluency of students with learning disabilities. We detail how five design and delivery steps can help to create a supplemental writing intervention that addresses simple sentence structure, …
Educating Students With Learning Difficulties In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Apryl L. Poch, Duaa Alzahrani, Jawaher Aljuwayhir, Maram Alnahari
Educating Students With Learning Difficulties In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Apryl L. Poch, Duaa Alzahrani, Jawaher Aljuwayhir, Maram Alnahari
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Identification of and services for students with learning disabilities share both similarities and differences across cultures, including the term(s) used to label and subsequently provide services for these students. Learning disabilities, in Arabic, translates to “learning difficulties.” This column provides a brief overview of the current educational system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including the identification and services available for students with learning difficulties and concludes with future directions. Much opportunity remains for supporting the needs of students with learning difficulties in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.