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formerly Journal of Research on Computing in Education
JRTE, Volume 32, Number 4, Summer 2000
Technology and the Writing
Skills
of Students with Learning Disabilities
Yuehua Zhang
Washburn University
Abstract
A year-long study was conducted involving 5
fifth-grade
students with learning disabilities with written
language
deficits from a parochial elementary school in the
midwestern
United States using a specially designed computer
program
as a writing tool to assist them in a week-by-week
writing
curriculum. The study showed positive effects on
the participating
students’ writing behaviors and their written
products.
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ROBO-Writer was originally developed in HyperCard
(1993–1998),
an application for the management of small amounts
of text,
graphics, and sound. It was tested during the
development
in a special education classroom and is now
available on
the World Wide Web (http://dwb.unl.edu/Software/ROBO-W/ROBO-W.html)
as a stand-alone application for Macintosh
computers.
Contributor
Yuehua Zhang completed her graduate work at the
Center
for Curriculum and Instruction, University of
Nebraska at
Lincoln. With 20 years of teaching experience,
ranging from
seventh grade to college graduate level, Dr.
Zhang’s
major interest focuses on instructional
technology. She
is currently an assistant professor in the
Education Department
at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. She
previously
served four years as a faculty member at Concordia
University
in Seward, Nebraska.
Address: Dr. Yuehua Zhang, Washburn University,
Education
Department, 1700 SW College Ave., Topeka, KS
66621; zzyzhang@washburn.edu.
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