If a child has a language disorder, expressive worse than receptive, wouldn’t it make sense that he/she would also have a problem with writing? Not only forming the thoughts to put down on paper, but once he/she has the thoughts, to try and get those words onto paper as quickly as possible before he forgets?
How can a parent or teacher help a child with this type of problem? The school says just keep making him write, however all that is doing is frustrating him.
Re: language disorder and written word difficulties
It makes sense. I have seen students who, although they have difficulties with expressive language, can be fluent writers but yet it makes sense that some people’s expressive language issues spill over into generating written language.
One of my own sons was certainly that way.
I let my sons dictate their thoughts to me and I typed as they spoke. I didn’t let them look at the screen. They talked and I typed and then I would show them what we had accomplished. We did all the homework this way and it proved a good support to them.
Re: language disorder and written word difficulties
Receptive language develops first before expressive language. Audiblox has a language component that you might be interested in. I am currently using it with one of my students. Check them out. I am not an expert. www.audiblox200.com
Re: language disorder and written word difficulties
My son has an above average verbal IQ (116) but with a big discrepancy. His similarities score (8) is much lower than all the other scores (12 and 13s). He has CAPD. Right now his writing is way below grade level but then writing follows reading and that is where all our energy has gone. He is in third grade but his writing is on a 1st-2nd grade level. Guess I am wondering if his low similarities score is indicative of long term problems in your experience. He has above grade level vocabulary but often uses immature sentence structures (language delays). We will, of course, do everything we can to help him but was interested in your comment about the relationship of verbal IQ scores to writing success.
Beth
A study I recently read found that in LD adults, the best predictor of writing conmpetency was verbal IQ. Evidently in children there are other factors that can and do influence writing as much or even more.
In my resource program, the verbal IQ scores that exceed 100 seem to fare much better in the realm of producing written language that makes sense.