Write on! Using Assistive Technology and Systematic Instruction to Teach Sentence Writing to Students With Moderate to Severe Disability

Abstract

Developing skills for the written expression of students with moderate to severe disability can be challenging for teachers. Despite the importance of written expression to success in a variety of educational and community environments, there is little research evidence to support a set of practices for teachers to use to establish writing skills for this unique population. The current article provides a synthesis of the available research, and the author proposes a model for teaching students to develop basic sentence writing skills, as sentence writing serves a foundational component for other types of writing.