Children from all cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses demonstrate speech and language disorders that can have implications on their reading and writing abilities. It is the role of speech language pathologists to help remediate these foundational skills to allow further development of encoding and decoding in the educational setting. The presence of underlying speech and language disorders are often to blame for student deficits in writing abilities that present as writing disorders. School staff need to understand the role of speech language pathologist and the implications of untreated speech and language deficits. Graham et al. (2020) shares a large body of work that aims to strengthen the argument that there is a strong correlation between the presence of speech and language impairments and the effects that they have on student writing. The current investigation is a meta-analysis that replicates and improves on Graham et al.'s research. The current investigation utilizes their existing body of work with the following additions to examine if race, gender, socioeconomic status, location of the study, type of assessment utilized, or publication status generate any significant differences in students? writing abilities. Results of this study support Graham et al.'s conclusion. Both bodies of work agree that the presence of speech and language impairments have a negative impact on students? writing abilities. There was not enough available data to determine if a student's racial background, gender, or socioeconomic status plays a part in the development of encoding. Teachers and school staff need to understand the importance of speech and language disorders and when speech and language intervention is needed to help students? writing skills progress. Language skills are necessary foundational skills that are required to participate in both functional and educational activities. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]