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Write Now: Facilitating Writing Development for Students with Significant Disabilities

 

From the very start, writing is an essential, unquestioned component of literacy development for typically developing children. For students with significant disabilities who are unable to hold a pencil, writing may be laborious and frustrating, and may not even be on the radar. Given the importance of writing, this workshop will focus on getting writing ON the radar! A wide variety of meaningful classroom writing activities and strategies will be demonstrated with tools to support student success, such as alternative pencils, augmentative and alternative communication devices and other forms of assistive technology. Videos and writing samples will be shown of real students with the most significant disabilities in elementary to high school classrooms, including students with deaf-blindness. Sample goals and ways of assessing writing will be shared. Suggestions for using the same activities with students with mild disabilities will be discussed.