Comparison of the Story Production of LD,Normal-Achieving,and Low-Achieving Children under Two Modes of Production

Abstract

Using two modes of production, writing and dictation, this study compared the story production, coherence, and fluency of learning disabled (LD) children with that of normal-achieving and low-achieving subjects across three grade levels. Results indicated that: (a) mode of production had no effect upon story production or fluency for any of the subjects; (b) all children made more errors in coherence using dictation; (c) LD children produced fewer stories, were less fluent than the other subjects regardless of mode, and did not improve greatly with maturation; (d) third-grade children of all ability levels produced few stories; (e) there were few differences between the performance of the fifth- and seventh-grade students on all variables; and (6) story producers were more fluent than producers of other types of compositions.

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