Exploring Literacy and Disabilities Paper

Exploring

Literacy and Disabilities

(30 points)

To truly support children’s literacy development, it is critical to understand what

evidence

exists with regards to particular instructional practice or, conversely, what

practices have been found to be effective with children with particular disabilities. In

this paper, you will choose a disability that you are interested in, and research evidence

–

based or evidence

–

informed strategies to support literacy skills in children with that

diagnosis.

In this 5 page

(max)

paper, you should:

Present your

selected disability and provide an explanation for how that

disability impacts literacy learning

Present research

on evidence

–

based or evidence

–

informed instructional

strategies that support literacy skills for children with that diagnosis or disability

Note any limitations of the research;

Reflect on

how you would use this research in your work (provide 3 examples);

Include

at least 3 journal

references. The references page does not count

toward your page total.