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A Visual Approach to Improved Literacy Skills for Special Education Adolescents: An Exploratory Study.

Sinatra, Richard; Venezia, Jennie F. – Exceptional Child, 1986

"Academically disabled" adolescents (N=70) participated in a visual literacy approach to reading and writing development. The subgroup of learning disabled students significantly improved in reading comprehension and narrative and descriptive writing, while "borderline" students (intelligence quotient 70-89) improved in reading comprehension.…

Descriptors: Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Hyperactivity, Instructional Effectiveness