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Improving the Paragraph Text-Writing Skills of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Single-Case Design Study
Rodgers, Derek B.; Datchuk, Shawn M.
Education and Treatment of Children, v43 n4 p347-360 Dec 2020
Research suggests that students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) struggle to develop writing skills. Paragraph text writing is a component of written expression and refers to the composition of connected text into multiple, related sentences of appropriate semantics, spelling, syntax, and usage (e.g., capitalization and punctuation). In the present study, we investigated the effects of a multicomponent intervention of explicit instruction and fluency practice on the paragraph text-writing skills of four secondary-aged individuals with IDD. We used a multiple-probe across participants design and measured paragraph text-writing with correct and incorrect writing sequences. Visual analysis and effect sizes revealed mixed results: Three participants showed improvement in the accuracy and/or speed of their paragraph text-writing, but one participant showed no improvement. We discuss the results of the study within the context of the writing intervention literature and instructional procedures for developing writing fluency.
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Direct Instruction
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