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Summarizing Expository Texts
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Westby, Carol; Culatta, Barbara; Lawrence, Barbara; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: This article reviews the literature on students' developing skills in summarizing expository texts and describes strategies for evaluating students' expository summaries. Evaluation outcomes are presented for a professional development project aimed at helping teachers develop new techniques for teaching summarization. Methods: Strategies…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Skill Development, Grade 4, Grade 5
Multiliteracies: The Changing World of Communication
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Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The technological and social/cultural demands of the 21st century are reshaping communication requirements. Students not only need to be able to communicate effectively in oral and written language, but they also need to communicate effectively in multimodal ways--they need to become skilled in multiliteracies. This article explains the two…
Descriptors: Written Language, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Communication Skills
Computers, Culture, and Learning.
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Westby, Carol; Atencio, David J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
Opinions vary regarding the impact of computers on children and value of using computers in the education of children. This article discusses the impact of technology on culture, attitudes about technological change, the nature of literacy in a technological society, and frameworks for thinking about teaching and learning with technology.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Children, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Who Are Adults with Learning Disabilities and What Do We Do about Them?
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Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article addresses the definition of learning disabilities (LD), issues in identifying learning disability in young adults, the legal rights/protections for adults with LD in the workplace or higher education, and what are reasonable accommodations. Case vignettes provide examples of the issues. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults
Language: The Embedded Curriculum in Postsecondary Education.
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Olivier, Carolyn; Hecker, Linda; Klucken, Joyce; Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article describes the nature of the embedded language components of the postsecondary classroom and Landmark College's strategies to assist students with dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, and other language-based disabilities to develop the critical and abstract thinking, reading, writing and study skills that will enable them to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Curriculum, Dyslexia, Higher Education
Ethnography and Research: A Qualitative View.
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Patton, Michael; Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This article describes the functions of ethnography and the primary themes that form the foundation for qualitative inquiry generally and ethnography specifically, as applied in the fields of education and communication disorders. Quantitative and qualitative methods are compared for inquiry conditions, analysis, researcher's role, orientation,…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Ethnography, Language Handicaps, Qualitative Research